Eval. Basics
The impact of the program process on the cases processed.
A type of evaluation research conducted to determine whether it is feasible to evaluate a program’s effects within the available time and resources.
What is evaluability assessment?
Officer talks to kids, role playing acting out scenarios, teaching decision-making skills.
What is Program Process?
A program evaluation that is guided by a theory that specifies the process by which the program has an effect.
What are theory-driven evaluations?
A type of evaluation research that compares program costs with the economic value of program benefits.
What is cost-benefit analysis?
Resources, raw materials, clients, and staff that go into a program.
What are inputs?
Evaluation research that investigates the process of service delivery.
What is process evaluation (program monitoring)?
Students in DARE
What is an input?
A descriptive or prescriptive model of how a program operates and produces its effects.
What is program theory?
New policies (i.e., mandating orientation for incoming freshman) Laws (i.e., three strikes law) Programs ( i.e., DARE) are examples of these.
What are topics appropriate for evaluation
research and problem analysis?
The services delivered or new products produced by the program process.
Analysis of the extent to which a treatment or other service has the intended effect.
What is impact evaluation?
Information given during the program, or afterwards about DARE.
What is feedback?
This type of evaluation occurs when an evaluation of program outcomes ignores and does not identify the process by which the program produced the effect.
What are black box evaluations?
The complete treatment or services delivered by the program.
What is the program process?
Information about service delivery system outputs, outcomes, or operations that is available to any program inputs.
What is feedback?
Board members, funders, anyone who has some concern with the program.
Who are the stakeholders?
An orientation to evaluation research that expects researchers to emphasize the importance of researcher expertise and maintenance of autonomy from program stakeholders.
What are social science approaches?
A type of evaluation research that compares program costs to actual program outcomes.
What is cost-effectiveness analysis?
Individuals and groups who have some basis of concern with the program.
Who are stakeholders?
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.
What is efficiency analysis?
Decision making step/skills.
What are outputs?
An orientation to evaluation research that expects researchers to respond to concerns of people involved with stakeholders, as well as to the standards and goals of the social scientific community.
What are integrated approaches?
An orientation to evaluation research that expects researchers to be responsive primarily to the people involved with the program.
What are stakeholder approaches?