Exam 12: Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Before proposing or conducting his study, a researcher examines the projected costs of his study on inmate rehabilitation and compares them against expected program effectiveness. He is conducting a prestudy ______.

What type of assessment is appropriate to determine if a study to identify the effects of a particular program may or may not be possible within the available time and resources?

What are clients, customers, or students referred to in evaluation research?

Describe the difference between a black box evaluation and a theory-driven evaluation.

Braga et al.'s (1999) evaluation of the effectiveness of problem-oriented policing to decrease the incidence of violent street crime revealed which of the following?

Which piece of legislation was a catalyst for evaluation research?

What type of assessment is appropriate to determine if a new program should be implemented?

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

All the following are instances when qualitative methods would be preferable for evaluation research EXCEPT ______.

All the following are strengths of randomized experimental designs in impact evaluations EXCEPT which of the following?

Which type of method is commonly used in process evaluations?

Which of the following would be an example of a finding produced from a process evaluation?

Goal-free evaluation is an extreme form of which type of approach?

In a social science approach, the researcher independently specifies the nature and focus of the evaluation.

Whenever possible, nonexperimental designs should not be used for evaluation research because they are "of almost no scientific value."

A process evaluation is a systematic attempt by evaluation researchers to examine program coverage and delivery.

One issue with using an experimental research design in evaluation studies is the inability to randomly assign people into the control or experimental groups.

Most published evaluation studies are which type?

Nonexperimental designs ______.

Identify and explain the major ethical issues in evaluation research.