Exam 11: Planning the Intervention Effect Evaluations

Which of the following goes beyond merely documenting that the objectives were met by quantifying the extent to which the interventions seem related to changes observed or measured among program recipients?

Provide the correct example of measures of inputs or outputs for each term. -Ordinal variable

Which of the following results from minimizing natural flaws associated with doing evaluations that might otherwise diminish the evaluator's ability to identify the amount of effect of the program?

State whether each of the following examples is an issue of reliability or validity: A) Data entry errors B) Only one reading taken by one evaluator for the data point in a study that uses blood pressure as one of the indicators C) Administration of a food frequency questionnaire to a 7-year-old D) A Likert scale survey question whose only options are "agree" and "disagree"

Techniques used to collect data are called ________________.

Provide the correct example of measures of inputs or outputs for each term. -Sensitivity

The goal of evaluation is social accounting and program or policy decision making, and the goal of ________________ is to generate new knowledge for prediction.

Provide the correct example of measures of inputs or outputs for each term. -Unit of observation

Provide the correct example of measures of inputs or outputs for each term. -Mediating variable

Provide the correct example of measures of inputs or outputs for each term. -Nominal variable

Provide the correct example of measures of inputs or outputs for each term. -Moderating variable

Which of the following contributes to the difficulty in finding any effect from a program intervention? Select all that apply.

Under what circumstance would missing data have only a minimal effect on the analysis and subsequent findings?

Evaluation users should be involved with evaluation to:

A community agency wanted to know if its school condom distribution program was having an effect on rates of sexually transmitted diseases among teens. The only available and relevant secondary data was collected a few years prior, but the stakeholders did not believe that this data reflected their community. In addition, the local school board denied evaluators access to its students to collect evaluation data. Therefore, the program staff was forced to restate its question to focus on the number of students who received free condoms from the program over the past year. The revised evaluation question is what type of evaluation?

Provide the correct example of measures of inputs or outputs for each term. -Interval variable