Deck 10: Analyzing Evaluation Data

Question 1

Pam is interested in exploring the nature of the relationships between children and staff at a residential treatment program. She identifies a facility and the facility's administrators agree that she can use face-to-face surveys with staff, including mental health technicians, clinicians, and psychiatrists. Pam decides to conduct in-depth interviews with three different types of staff members to find out about their relationships with the children. What type of analysis will she conduct?

A) Case Studies
B) Single Systems Design
C) Validity studies
D) Suitability studies

Answer 1

A

Question 2

An evaluator has significant interest in examining the legislative processes that led to the mental health deinstitutionalization movement. He researches multiple transcripts on the legislative debates that occurred in the 1950's and 1960's. The goal of the data analysis is to better understand the legislative discourse patterns that occurred over this twenty-year period. What type of data analysis is the most appropriate?

A) Interview Schedule
B) Theme Analysis
C) Case Study
D) Multivariate

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Terrence is a lead investigator for a qualitative project focused on exploring how technology impacts the efficacy of a parenting program. He is shocked that over 500 caregivers respond to the open-ended questions. Which type of data analysis is most appropriate for the analysis of these responses?

A) Case studies
B) Descriptive statistics
C) Condense responses into general categories
D) Measures of central tendency

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Clinical observations at a child guidance center indicate that three interventions hold promise for helping autistic children. The three interventions are behavioral, behavioral coupled with family systems, and behavioral coupled with psychoeducation. However, evidence-based practice dictates that the three interventions be tested to determine which is the most effective. How can a researcher compare the differences among the three interventions using a statistical test?

A) T-test
B) Measures of central tendency
C) Measures of variability
D) ANOVA

Question 5

Bill runs a psychoeducational group for individuals who have been admitted to a residential facility. He wants to evaluate the group intervention and therefore administers a quantitative questionnaire to the 12 group members. The responses to one question result in a mean score of 20, and the standard deviation is 6. How can this standard deviation be interpreted?

A) Six units from the mean are statistically significant
B) Six units from the mean are statistically and clinically significant
C) It is a standardized measure of how scores flucuate around the mean
D) Average score for the measure is 14

Question 6

A consistent finding in criminology literature is that there is an association between race and type of arrest (e.g. robbery, assault, homicide, etc.). This finding is reviewed by the criminal justice department at a university. Some believe that theses results are due to institutional discrimination, while others believe that it depends on the demographic characteristics of an area. What statisitc can test a hypothesis that states there is an association between race and type of arrest?

A) Chi-square
B) Standard deviation
C) T-test
D) Tests of variance

Question 7

Hospice programs provide crucial services for individuals with terminal illnesses and their families. Two divergent staffing paradigms are implemented in hospice programs. The first paradigm uses only masters-level providers, while the second primarily uses bachelor-level providers with a masters-level supervisor. Researchers are interested in determining if there are differences between the paradigms in terms of client satisfaction. Which type of data analysis can measure differences between two groups?

A) t-test
B) ANOVA
C) Correlation
D) Descriptive statistics

Question 8

Program evaluators are trying to gain knowledge into the cognitive distortions of sexual offenders. They expect that there will be a "norm" of cognitive distortions, but what is emerging is a substantial amount of variability. What appears are that some offenders distort their intentions, some distort the interests in their victims, and some have distortions about the concepts of love and intimacy. What is the name of the type of descriptive statistics that illustrates how much responses vary from the "norm?"

A) Measures of variability
B) Measures of central tendency
C) Range
D) Mean

Question 9

Alicia wants to test the associations between SES and education for program recepients. One of the variables that approximates SES is household income. She designates family income as representing income per year and the variable has values of 1 = $0 to $25,000, 2 = $25, 001 to $50,000, 3 = $50,001 to $80,000, 4 = $80,001 to $100,000, and 5 = above $100,000. What is the level of measurement of the variable household income?

A) Nominal
B) Ordinal
C) Interval
D) Ratio

Question 10

Measures of variability are important for quantitative analysis because the measures determine the extent to which scores of a value vary or disperse from measures of central tendency. For instance, a group program recepients may take a test and the scores may be 75, 82, 84, 88, and 93. Thus the range in scores is from 75 to 93, which places the mean score at 84.4%. Which statistic is not a measure of variability?

A) Standard deviation
B) Range
C) Variance
D) Mean