Exam 6: Outcome Evaluation

The reactive effect of experimental procedures is when the experiment is a treatment in and of itself if the subjects become aware of the fact that they are being studied.

Contamination of data occurs when the program evaluator remains in control of the experiment and neither the experimental nor the control groups are exposed to the treatment.

Measures of program effectiveness are needed to help determine if the program was able to meet the needs of its target population.

The determination of whether any other factors were responsible for the program outcomes is known as:

Which of the following measures the impact of a program by applying it to the treatment group, withholding it from the control group, and then measuring what happened as a result of the experiment?

Changing the instrument (or measurements) used between the pre-test and post-test will improve program effectiveness.

Which of the following is concerned with whether or not the program intervention and program outcomes are related?

If any factors other than random assignment played a role in the assignment of individuals to the experimental and control groups, selection bias is in play.

Which of the following clearly indicates that random assignment was not used to construct it?

The purpose of random assignment is to guarantee that the two groups are equal and alike in every aspect except for their exposure to the program.

Which of the following is used to create treatment and comparison groups by using the likelihood of observed characteristic in the groups and balancing the groups in terms of these observed characteristics?

Design features of a study where comparisons between performance are made with the same group pre-test and post-test to the experimental treatment are known as:

Efficiency measures gauge how quickly the program was implemented.

Which of the following makes use of pre-test and post-test but also features more frequent measures taken before and after the introduction of the treatment variable?

Which of the following describes the require?ment that the program response must precede the decline in the problem?

Which of the following is concerned with whether or not the program intervention really did cause a change in program outcomes?

The key feature of the classical experimental design is that the groups are selected at random from a pool of candidates from the target population that the program is designed to serve.

Which of the following is created when people in a study are released or diverted elsewhere, thus effecting the results of the study?

Which type of design attempts to maintain some measure of experimental rigor and control over relevant variables other than the treatment by some method except random assignment?

Reactive effect of pre-testing is when a pre-test ensures the lack of sensitivity of the research subjects.