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A researcher goes in to inspect a school program for children who are struggling to read, which is receiving a large amount of government funds. She wants to make sure there is improvement among these students or funding will be cut. What kind of analysis would she be conducting?

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Correct Answer: Cost-effectiveness analysis

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Individuals and groups who have some basis of concern with the program are called ______.

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Correct Answer: Stakeholders

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In order to start a new program, a service provider seeks to find out how much the program will cost per outcome desired. The service provider needs to find an investigator to conduct what kind of research?

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Correct Answer: Efficiency analysis

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When process evaluation is used to shape and refine the operations of the program that was evaluated, it is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Formative evaluation

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An implementation assessment is another name for a/an ______.

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Correct Answer: Process evaluation

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Confidentiality is “particularly thorny” in research on social programs because ______.

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Correct Answer: Researchers are not legally protected from the requirement that they provide evidence in legal proceedings

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Schutt suggests that qualitative interviewing can be most useful in evaluation research in terms of ______.

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Correct Answer: Investigating program process

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Eastern City proposes developing a community policing program to reduce crime in one neighborhood. The police department, in conjunction with the mayor’s office, held several meetings in which they discussed this proposal with neighborhood residents, business owners, and social organizations. In this example, the outcome of the program is intended to be ______.

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Correct Answer: Reduction of crime in the neighborhood

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If scientific causal criteria outweigh political needs in evaluation research, it is known as having what type of orientation ______.

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Correct Answer: Social science

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Which law requires some type of evaluation on all government programs?

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Correct Answer: The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993

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A type of evaluation research that attempts to determine the needs of some population that might be met with a social program is called a needs assessment.

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Correct Answer: True

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Impact analysis typically uses qualitative methods.

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Correct Answer: False

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Assessing needs, determining evaluability, and examining the process of a program service delivery have special ethical dimensions relative to other social research methods.

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Correct Answer: True

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Evaluability assessments usually rely on qualitative methods.

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Correct Answer: True

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The direct product of a program’s service delivery process is its outcome.

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Correct Answer: False

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A program evaluation that is guided by a theory that specifies the process by which the program has an effect is called theory-driven evaluation

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Correct Answer: True

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See impact evaluation (or analysis) is called Summative _________

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Correct Answer: Evaluation

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Individuals and groups who have some basis of concern with the program is called

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Correct Answer: Stakeholders

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An orientation to evaluation research that expects researchers to be responsive primarily to the people involved with the program; also termed responsive evaluation, is called the _________ approach.

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Correct Answer: Stakeholders

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An orientation to evaluation research that expects researchers to emphasize the importance of researcher expertise and maintenance of autonomy from program stakeholders is called _____________ approach

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Correct Answer: Social science

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A descriptive or prescriptive model of how a program operates and produces effects is called _______ theory

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Correct Answer: Program

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The complete treatment or service delivered by the program is called ______ process.

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Correct Answer: Program

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________ Evaluation research that investigates the process of service delivery.

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Correct Answer: Process

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A Policy research process in which research results are used to provide policy actors with recommendations for action that are based on empirical evidence and careful reasoning.

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Correct Answer: True

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The services delivered or new products produced by the program process is called

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Correct Answer: Output

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The impact of the program process on the cases processed is called

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Correct Answer: Outcomes

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A type of evaluation research that attempts to determine the needs of some population that might be met with a _______ program is called Needs assessment.

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Correct Answer: Social

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An orientation to evaluation research that expects researchers to respond to the concerns of people involved with the program—stakeholders—as well as to the standards and goals of the social scientific community is called ________ approach

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Correct Answer: Integrative

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The resources, raw materials, clients, and staff that go into a program is called

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Correct Answer: Inputs

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Impact evaluation explains the Analysis of the extent to which a treatment or other service has an effect; also known as summative evaluation.

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Correct Answer: True

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Process evaluation that is used to shape and refine program operations is called

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Correct Answer: Formative Evaluation

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Information about service delivery system outputs, outcomes, or operations that can guide a program _____ is called feedback.

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Correct Answer: Inputs

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A type of evaluation research conducted to determine whether it is feasible to evaluate a program’s effects within the available time and resources is called evaluability assessment

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Correct Answer: True

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Efficiency analysis is a type of evaluation research that compares program costs with program effects. It can be either a cost–benefit analysis or a cost–effectiveness analysis.

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Correct Answer: True

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A type of evaluation research that compares program costs with actual program outcomes is called

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Correct Answer: Cost–effectiveness analysis

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A type of evaluation research that compares program costs with the economic value of program benefits is called

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Correct Answer: Cost–benefit analysis

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The type of evaluation that occurs when an evaluation of program outcomes ignores, and does not identify, the process by which the program produced the effect is called ______ box evaluation.

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Correct Answer: Black

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