Exam 15: Evaluation: What Is It? Why Is It Needed? How Does It Relate to Theory?

The influence of which piece of legislation, and the "accountability movement" of which it was a part, has accelerated the degree to which agencies and organizations use strategic planning documents to set out their goals as a guide to action and as a method for evaluating progress?

Quantitative data refer to the data that are more narrative, descriptive, and subjective in character-the information typically obtained from extended interviews, focus groups, and observation.

Which type of confounding may occur in cases with extreme poverty or extremely high-risk behavior, as pre-posttest scores may end up showing improvement only because they cannot get worse?

Diffusion of treatment occurs when you cannot prevent the control or comparison group from getting some or all of the intervention.

Dependent variables are important because they tell you a lot about which characteristics or situations might have an effect on program outcomes and impacts.

For a replication to serve as an additional test of the model, the program has to be replicated with which of the following?

Empowerment evaluation is an experimental evaluation design intended only to produce rigorous data.

What is the basic question that is answered by a process evaluation?

When a program includes a full-scale design of which type as part of the program itself, it can be viewed as an evaluation project?

The question, "Are program results comparable to other results as documented in comparison data?" would be best answered with which evaluation method?