Exam 10: Evaluation and Policy Analysis

A process evaluation can employ a wide range of ______.

Did the research by Braga et al. (1999) meet all of the criteria for a true experimental design? Describe the research and what they found.

A private organization that has become a leader in publicizing reviews related to criminal justice policy research is the Carter Collaboration.

Because policy research often draws on the findings of evaluation research projects and involves working for a client as is the case in evaluation research, policy researchers confront many of the same challenges as do evaluation researchers.

Piza et al. (2016) conducted a ______ of a program in Newark, NJ pairing proactive CCTV monitoring with directed police patrol.

What does it mean to say that evaluation process as a whole can be understood in relation to stakeholders? As part of your answer, explain what stakeholders are and how this type of research is different than traditional social science research.

What is the social science approach? Stakeholder approach? How are they different?

______ designs are the most powerful alternatives to true randomized experimental designs.

The difference between evaluation research and traditional social science research is that evaluation research is designed to test the implications of a social theory.

Variation in both outputs and outcomes in turn influences the inputs to the program through ______.

A needs assessment attempts to answer whether a new program is needed.

In black box evaluation, the focus of the researcher is on whether cases seem to have changed as a result of their ______.

Describe the research done on Problem-Oriented Policing in Violent Crime Areas. What kind of design was used? What did they discover?

One of the only true experiments to examine the efficacy of problem-oriented policing was conducted by Anthony Braga and his colleagues in 1999, and it remains a model evaluation study today.

The evaluation process as a whole and the feedback process in particular can only be understood in relation to the interests and perspectives of ______.

The analysis of the extent to which a treatment or other service has the intended effect is an outcome evaluation.

The direct products of the program's service delivery process are its outputs.

The clustering of violent crime at particular locations suggests that there are important features or dynamics at these locations that ______.

Describe the process of evaluation research.

The program theory is developed by the researcher to clarify and develop the researchers' theory of the program.