Outcomes
The systematic collection of information about the activities, characteristics, and results of a program to make judgments about the program, improve program effectiveness, inform decisions about future programs, or increase understanding.
What is Progam Evaluation?
A cause of unanticipated outcomes in which short-term concerns and short attention spans supersede long-term understandings.
What is the immediate interest?
A theory or model of how an intervention, such as a project, program, initiative or policy, contribute to a chain of intermediate results and finally to the observed or intended outcomes.
What is the program theory?
This is based on principles that ensure recognition, accurate interpretation, and respect for diversity.
What is cultural competence?
There is an objective reality and we can understand it through the laws by which it is governed.
What is positivism?
The application of a broad spectrum of techniques that lead to evidence-based answers and information about the contributions of a specific program.
What is outcome harvesting?
The belief that we can change the future through our actions.
What is interventionism?
What people do as opposed to what they say they do, believe they are doing, or believe they should be doing according to policy or some principle.
What is the theory-in-use or theory-in-action?
When doing this, one must pay much more attention to outcomes, aggregate data, and cumulative information over time.
What is quality assurance?
This issue is extremely ambiguous when designing a qualitative research study.
What is the sample size?
The quantitative indicators of outcomes that are narrow in focus.
What are the outcomes measurements?
A type of intervention involving the synthesis of study processes and outcomes that adhere to the same principles.
What are evidence-based principles?
The advantages of this evaluation approach include:
1. avoid the risk of narrowly stating program objectives and missing unanticipated outcomes.
2. Remove the negative connotations attached to the discovery of unanticipated effects.
3. Eliminate the perceptual biases by knowledge of goals.
4. Maintain evaluator independence by avoiding dependence on goals.
What is Goal-Free Evaluation?
Doing fieldwork and analysis speedily, often to meet tight decision deadlines for policymakers and is also called quick ethnography.
What is Rapid Reconnaissance?
Unstructured, semi-structured and structured are all types of...
What is are types of interviews?
These provide feedback at the program level about components of the program that work well and informs areas that need improvement.
What are the patterns of program effectiveness?
A qualitative inquiry that aims to determine how things are done, how outcomes are achieved, and people's experience of the process.
What is process evaluation?
You use this to understand what is behind the numbers.
What are stories?
This research integrates in-depth interviewing and scenario creation to study people's ideas about the future, their values, and concepts of change.
What is Ethnographic Futures Research?
Careful and objective notes about what you see are...
What are field notes?
Outcomes that assume that participants will have varying baselines and experiences in programs.
What are individualized outcomes?
Local conditions, organizational dynamics, programmatic uncertainties, and contextual sensitivities are factors that this type of evaluation.
What is the implementation evaluation?
A systematic process for group learning based on sharing stories and analyzing cross-cutting themes to inform future action.
What is reflective practice?
Qualitative methods are consistent with oral story sharing traditions and resonate with this type of people.
What is Indigenous Research?
Minutes of a meeting, program evaluations, and annual reports can be used for...
What are the types of documents that can be used for data collection?