Exam 2: Planning a Program Evaluation

Which of the following describes goals that should represent what the program is trying to accomplish and accurately measure successful operations?

Which of these measures should indicate how well the program has been implemented and whether it has been implemented according to the original plan for the program?

In order to gauge progress, a goal must be:

Which of the following refers to the requirement that goals should represent and mirror the vision and mission of the program?

Which of the following involves the ability of evaluators to respect the security, dignity, and self-worth of respondents, program participants and other evaluation stakeholders?

The data obtained for the evaluation should be matched to individual participants.

Which of the following measures determine the degree of success of the program in dealing with the problem at hand?

Under the SARA model, which of the following involves seeking out, selecting, and implementing activities to solve the problem?

Which data-based inquiry do evaluators conduct?

Which of these measures can indicate whether the program has been successful by assessing the opinions of the program's clients?

Evaluators must display which of the following in their own behavior and attempt to ensure this in the entire evaluation process?

One key ethical issue that must be resolved early in the evaluation process is:

Procedures to collect data must be established and variables must be explicitly defined in measureable terms so that the meaning of the data is clear and will be followed carefully.

Valid performance measures do not need to be clear and easy to utilize and comprehend, nor do they need to be practical to administer and implement.

Under the SARA model, which of the following determines if the response was effective or identifies new strategies?

The reputations and egos of program sponsors and administers are tied to the success of the proposed program.

Valid performance measures do not need to be accurate and do not need to be relevant representations of both the quality and quantity of services provided by the program.

Which of the following requires evaluators to articulate and take into account the diversity of general and public interests and values that may be related to the evaluation?

Problems can be perceived as a group of events that are similar in one or more ways that are harmful to members of the public and that citizens expect the police to handle.

The logic model specifies the conceptual framework of an evaluation by establishing the variables to be measured and the expected relationships among them.