Exam 10: Evaluation and Policy Analysis

______ approaches encourage researchers to be responsive to people who are involved with the program.

Once we have decided on or identified the goal or focus for a program evaluation, there are still important decisions to be made about how to design the specific evaluation project. What are the most important decisions to be made?

Did the treatment or program (independent variable) effect change in the dependent variable?" This part of the research is variously called ______.

An orientation to evaluation research that expects researchers to respond to concerns of people involved with stakeholders as well as to the standards and goals of the social scientific community are known as ______ approaches.

Most social science research assumes that the researcher specifies the research questions, the applicable theory or theories, and the outcomes to be investigated. In program evaluation, however, the research question is often set by the program sponsors or the government agency that is responsible for reviewing the program. How does that affect the research?

When an ongoing entitlement program is being evaluated and experimental subjects would normally be eligible for program participation, it may be ethical simply to bar some potential participants from the programs.

The process of evaluation research is a simple systems model.

A necessary component of an evaluation research project that compares program effects with costs is known as a(n) ______.

A type of evaluation research that compares program costs to program effects is ______.

Typically, evaluation research that attempts to identify the effects of a treatment, law, or program typically is quantitative.

One private organization that has become a leader in publicizing reviews related to criminal justice policy research is the ______.

The difference between evaluation research and traditional social science research is that evaluation research ______.

Regardless of the treatment or program being examined evaluations are systematic because they employ social research approaches to ______.

As part of its Project Safe Neighborhoods, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) provided funding to 12 relatively large cities to develop and implement a comprehensive anti-gang initiative (CAGI) intended to prevent and reduce gang violence.

A program theory describes what has been learned about how the program has its effect.

The first evaluator of the evaluation research is the funding agency, not the professional social science community.

If an investigation of program process is constructed, a(n) ______.

By the mid-1970s, evaluators were called on not only to assess the overall effectiveness of programs but also to determine ______.

Stakeholders are those individuals and groups who ______.

Educational and vocational training opportunities in prison, the availability of legal counsel, and treatment for substance abuse are all potentially important benefits, and an evaluation research project ______.