Terms
Analysis of data collected by someone other than the researcher or the researcher’s assistant, at another time.
What is secondary data?
Research with an impact on policy choices in the immediate future is known as _________ research.
What is applied.
What is B (surveys conducted by the investigator)
A researcher studies the frequency and commonalities of burglaries in her state by examining crime data taken from the state police database from the last six years. This study is an example of ______.
What is secondary data analysis?
All the following are general types of evaluation research EXCEPT ______. A) need, B) process, C) impact, D) improvement
What is D) improvement?
An experimental study conducted in a real-world setting.
What is a field experiment?
What are clients, customers, or students referred to in evaluation research? A. inputs, B. outcomes, C. outputs, D. none of these
What are A) inputs?
Which of the following is NOT a major type of secondary data? A) surveys, B) historical documents, C) official reports, D) intensive interviews
What is D) intensive interviews
A quasi-experimental design in which there are experimental and comparison groups that are designated before the treatment occurs but are not created by random assignment.
What is a nonequivalent control group design?
In a research project, a researcher is administering a survey to a large sample but is also conducting a small number of focus groups. This is an example of ______.
Types of relationships that can include many different forms such as face-to-face and online interactions, interaction with a criminal justice agency, and digital economic transactions, are included in ______.
What are social networks?
What type of assessment is appropriate to determine if a new program should be implemented?
What is needs assessment?
Secondary data analysis refers to data that ______.
A. is considered inferior, B. was collected in the second phase of a longitudinal study, C. is being used for a different purpose than its original, or D. is not central to the original research question
What is C) is being used for a different purpose than its original?
The units that are surveyed in ______ can range from newspapers, books, or TV shows to persons referred to in other communications. A. historical data analysis, B. case studies, C. crime mapping, D. content analysis
What is D. content analysis?
Which research design is best for maximizing generalizability? A) participant observation, B) survey, C) experiment, D) Intensive interviewing
What is B) survey?
Evaluation research that investigates the process of service delivery is a(n) ______.
What is process evaluation (monitoring)?
What type of assessment is appropriate to determine if a study to identify the effects of a particular program may or may not be possible within the available time and resources?
What is evaluability assessment?
Once coding procedures are developed for content analysis, their reliability should be assessed by ______.
A. testing and refining the coding procedures, B. determining the units of analysis, C. comparing different coders' codes for the same variables, D. identifying a population of documents for study
What is C) comparing different coders' codes for the same variables.
In a research study examining perception of safety on college campuses, a researcher is administering surveys at the same time she is conducting observations. Which type of design is she using?
What is convergent parallel design?
Which of the following is NOT a part of the simple systems model of evaluation research? A) inputs, B) outputs, C) outcomes, or D) shareholders
What is D) shareholders?
A necessary component of an evaluation research project that compares program effects with costs is known as a(n) ______.
What is efficiency analysis?
In a _________ evaluation, the focus of the researcher is on whether cases seem to have changed as a result of their exposure to the program between the time they entered the program as inputs and when they exited the program as outputs.
What is black box evaluation?
Which of the following is possible with content analysis? A) random sample of units, B) fixed choice responses, C) statistical analysis, D) all of these
What is D) all of these?
A researcher is conducting a meta-analysis on the mental health effects of solitary confinement. In this study, the unit of analysis is ______. A. offenders in solitary confinement, B. offenders who were not in solitary confinement, C. previous studies on the effects of solitary confinement, D. prisons
What is C) previous studies on the effects of solitary confinement?
The strongest research design for assessing the impacts and outcomes of programs and other interventions is the ______. A) nonequivalent control group design, B) longitudinal design, C) true experimental design, or D) quasi-experimental design
What is C) true experimental design?