Deck 8: Policy Evaluation

Question 1

Covert evaluation occurs for which of the following reasons?

A) Postponement
B) Claiming responsibility
C) Accountability
D) Secrecy

Answer 1

A

Question 2

One of the major differences between covert and overt evaluation is

A) covert evaluation is for military purposes only.
B) overt evaluation is planned in advanced while covert occurs spontaneously.
C) overt evaluation is "above the board."
D) covert evaluation is more typical in a non-democratic society.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

One of the problems with informal evaluation is

A) it is often done for fraudulent reasons.
B) it may not provide a complete understanding.
C) it is politically biased.
D) it is done by bureaucrats.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Impact evaluation studies

A) require external oversight of the evaluation processes.
B) are easily accomplished through the use of internal audits.
C) require an understanding of target groups prior to and following policy.
D) All of the above

Question 5

External evaluation teams

A) add legitimacy to the evaluation process.
B) are from private profit or non-profit organizations.
C) may be comprised of university researchers.
D) All of the above

Question 6

Which of the following is not the focus of internal evaluation?

A) The legitimacy of policy-implementation goals.
B) The methods by which policy is implemented.
C) The success of implementation.
D) The methods of improving implementation.

Question 7

Internal evaluators are the most likely to produce fully informed policy evaluations due to ease of access to policy data.

Question 8

Post-policy evaluations provide granting agencies with a sense of the impact of policy implementation.

Question 9

In pre-/post-policy evaluations, the comparison group not served by a public policy is known as

A) the "experimental" group.
B) the "potential clientele" group.
C) the "external" group.
D) the "control" group.

Question 10

One of the problems with pre-/post-evaluation studies is that

A) such studies can never document policy impacts.
B) the approach requires the denial of potential policy benefits.
C) the approach may violate an individuals' constitutional rights.
D) Both b and c