Evaluation Approaches
What is a stakeholder?
What is the word that represents the average of all data points in the study?
What is the mean?
The type of phase in developing evaluation questions where the team develops a laundry list of important questions, concerns, and values of stakeholders.
What is the divergent phase?
The type of research approach in which the researcher collects both qualitative and quantitative data separately and then compares
the results.
What is the/a convergent approach?
The section of a manuscript in which the issue or concern is established, the problem is identified, and should encourage/entice the reader to read further.
What is the introduction?
What are evaluation questions?
The type of analyses that are used when first examining survey results (eg., mean, median)
What are descriptive statistics?
The term that refers to how researchers identify their biases, values and identities that shape their interpretation throughout the study.
What is research reflexivity?
The approach in which quantitative data is collected in the first phase, and results are used to plan the subsequent qualitative phase.
What is an explanatory sequential approach?
A variable like years, minutes, miles, meters.
What is a continuous variable?
The type of assessment/evaluation that elucidates whether or not a program will be implemented in the future.
The type of test that looks for associations between variables.
What is a correlational test?
A qualitative research method that provides a convenient way of gathering information from groups of people.
What are focus groups? What is a focus group?
The approach in which the evaluator begins with a qualitative approach, followed by a quantitative phase.
What is an exploratory sequential approach?
The term that describes if test scores are dependable, consistent, and stable - in other words, will it give us the same result over and over again?
What is reliability?
The type of standards that address human rights, and minimizing risk to participants, respect, and dignity to all involved.
What are propriety standards?
The type of common statistical test that is used to test for differences between two related variables.
What is a Paired T-test?
The type of interviews in which an interviewer uses a series of open-ended questions that are pre-determined, but also has the freedom to ask additional questions.
What is a semi-structured interview (SSI)? What are semi-structured interviews?
The construct in which multiple methods and/or researchers are used to increase validity of a study.
What is triangulation?
The type of evaluation that answers some of the following questions: to what extent are desired changes occurring? goals met? Who is benefiting/not benefiting? What are unintended outcomes?
What is an outcome evaluation? What is outcome evaluation?
The logic of how a program is structured, resources are used, and activities are implemented, all in order to generate student behavioral and achievement outcomes.
What is the theory of action or program theory?
High School GPA and Class Rank often predict College Freshman Year GPA.
In research, College Freshman Year GPA can also be called...
What is the dependent variable, DV, or Criterion variable?
When doing fieldwork, this is a detailed running account of your observations of an event lasting for a specified period of time.
What are chronologs? What is a field experience log or diary? What are field notes?
The theory of knowledge. (What is it for this relation to be one of knowledge? Do we know things? And if we do, how and when do we know things?)
What is Epistemology/Epistemological framework?
The type of study in which data is collected from the same group over a long period of time.
What is a longitudinal study? What is a longitudinal design?