Exam 4: Theory-Driven Evaluation

Which of the following is part of an implicit program theory and helps provide an understanding of what the program should be accomplishing?

Which of the following is part of an implicit program theory and makes sure that everything that a program does is included in its description?

Without using program theory, the evaluation is only able to determine if the program met narrowly defined goals rather than satisfied theoretical implications.

When program theory and social needs are described in general terms, the evaluator may have a false sense of congruence.

The key to representing any program impact theory is that each part of the program will have a cause-and-effect feature.

Extracting and espousing the program theory will ignore the major assumptions and expectations of the program's design.

Program objectives do not need to be clearly specified or be measurable from the start.

Program goals and objectives are secondary aspects of program theory.

Which of the following is part of an implicit program theory and means that the evaluator has to work with stakeholders to bring out the conclusions that come from their actions and assumptions?

The most basic form of program impact theory takes place in four stages.

Which of the following provides a schematic as to how the program resources, personnel, administration, and general organization are composed and utilized?

The validity of the program theory is the ability of the causal logic of the program to produce intended effects.

The impact theory may be simple, complex, formal, or informal, but the end result should be that change occurred.

The possibility that program goals and objectives can be met is known as:

A necessary function in assessing a program's theory is to articulate its concepts, assumptions, and expectations.

Which of the following is part of an implicit program theory and is contingent on the scope of the program and the scope of the program staff's concerns?

Which of the following provides information about the change process and the change in the conditions?

Which of the following is a method of identifying and describing the program theory by outlining its components and deciphering which of them is measurable?

Which of the following is vital to a theory-driven evaluation because it contains the assumptions and expectations for reaching the target population?

Which of the following describes the concepts and procedures necessary for a criminal justice program evaluator to examine the conceptualization of a program?