Exam 12: Evaluation Research

Which of the following would NOT be appropriate for measurement in evaluation research?

In reality,only quasi-experimental designs can be used in evaluation research.

Which of the following topics would be appropriate for evaluation research?

You are conducting a study of how effective a midnight basketball program is on reducing inner city juvenile crime.You measure the number of crimes reported to the police before and after the program is instituted,and you compare your findings to the crime rates in another city of similar size that does not have such a program.What is the experimental stimulus of your research?

Intersocietal comparisons are facilitated by calculating per capita rates.

The national speed limit in the United States was reduced to 55 mph in 1974.Proponents and critics of this legislation have looked at the number of traffic fatalities on major U.S.highways for the years preceding and following this legislation.Sonny examined the traffic fatalities on each of the major U.S.highways for every year from 1968 to 2005.Sonny used a:

A friend of yours was asked to evaluate the effect of an advertisement campaign designed to get people to have their blood pressure checked.After examining the records kept in the target area,your friend showed you the following graph where X indicates an observation. What will you tell your friend?

Rebecca was hired to determine what types of recreational programs teenagers wanted and would use in the town of Methods,U.S.A.Rebecca was hired to conduct a:

You never want to use existing measurements when conducting evaluation research.

Applied research is a form of evaluation research.

Producers of TV shows that depict violence often ignore the studies that indicate that children who watch violence are more likely to be aggressive,have fewer friends,and have poorer relationships with their parents than children who do not watch violent shows.The producers of the violent TV shows probably ignore the research because:

Why might the lack of use of research findings be frustrating for the evaluation researcher?

The denominator in a per capita rate is:

Social indicators research often uses existing statistics.

Ultimately,the criteria of success and failure is a mathematical formula.

Computer simulations are based on mathematical equations describing the relationships that link variables.

Creating new measures for variables in evaluation research has the advantage of:

Quantitative evaluations can yield only quantitative results.

Evaluation research as a scientific undertaking is a matter of finding out whether something happened or didn't happen.

For the last 15 years Jenny tracked the divorce and marriage rates in the United States.Jenny is doing a: