Exam 14: Program Evaluation

An important factor to consider in planning for the eventual feasibility and utilization of an evaluation is whether commitment to all aspects of the evaluation is obtained in advance from intended information users and other stakeholders.​

A major disadvantage of the community forum approach to needs assessment is the representativeness of the opinions expressed.​

Agency administrators who ask in-house program evaluators to assess their program's effectiveness are likely to​

Which of the following statements is true about logic models?​

Describe five different approaches to needs assessment and their advantages and disadvantages.​

External evaluators may not be objective and independent of stakeholder influences in the way they design, carry out, and report their evaluations.​

What are the advantages and disadvantages of evaluating program outcome and efficiency, as compared to monitoring program implementation?​

Cost-benefit techniques enable evaluators to put a true dollar value on all possible program costs and benefits, without respect to vested interests and value judgments.​

If a rigorous experimental assessment of program outcome finds that a program is not effective in attaining its goals, then there is no need to evaluate the program's implementation.​

In order to foster the eventual utilization of an evaluation, one of the steps evaluators should take is to​

​Which of the following statements is/are true about program evaluation?

Which of the following is true about the impact of managed care on program evaluation?​

Which of the following statements is true about monitoring program implementation?​

Describe the impact managed care has had on program evaluation.​

Evaluators who report negative findings about a program will usually be respected by stakeholders as competent and honest, provided that their methodology is reasonable.​

Why might the increasing importance that funding sources attach to program evaluation be a mixed blessing in terms of the way politics can affect program evaluations?​

The extent of need for a program or service always is accurately gauged by the amount of expressed demand for that program or service.​

Agency administrators and practitioners are likely to encourage maximum scientific rigor in evaluations of program outcome, irrespective of the funding implications.​

Which of the following statements is true about the goal attainment model of program evaluation?​

Focus groups are an example of a qualitative approach to needs assessment.​