Sources of Data
Historical/Comparative Research
Miscellaneous
Types of Evaluation Research
Vocabulary
100
This online database represents the primary means for distributing results from the U.S. Census
What is American FactFinder
100
In an example of historical process research, Cabellero (2000) used this indicator to demonstrate how the Miss America pageant promotes an unhealthy standard for girls to follow
What is the Body Mass Index (BMI)
100
The U.S. government conducts a full census of the population every _____ years
What is ten
100
The collection of qualitative data is often a key component in this type of evaluation research because it helps identify how a program operates
What is process evaluation
100
Massive datasets produced or accessible in computer-readable form that are produced by people, available to social scientists, and manageable with today's computers
What is big data
200
Frequency graphs produced by Google's database of all words printed in more than one-third of the world's books over time (with coverage expanding)
What is Ngrams
200
In an illustration of historical events research, Griffin (1993) concluded that this causal influence lead to the lynching of David Harris in the 1930s in Mississippi 
What is nonintervention by the deputy
200
This group of people decides whether there are any issues of concern regarding human subjects when a researcher acquires a dataset for secondary analysis
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)
200
This type of evaluation research heavily relies on quantitative data to examine whether a program has the intended result
What is impact analysis
200
A systematic method of analyzing text and other non-numerical data
What is content analysis
300
This national data program for the social sciences has been conducted since 1972 by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago to monitor trends in attitudes, behaviors, and sociodemographic attributes
What is the General Social Survey (GSS)
300
This issue represents a major limitation when oral histories are collected by researchers or obtained from an earlier project
What is the reliability of memories 
300
This stage of content analysis illustrates the challenge associated with establishing validity and reliability
What is designing coding procedures for the variables to be measured
300
This type of evaluation research often involves collection of quantitative data to ask the following question: Are the program's benefits sufficient to offset the program's costs?
What is efficiency analysis
300
Previously collected data that are used in a new analysis
What is secondary data
400
The first U.S. Census was conducted in this year
What is 1790
400
In this example of historical events research, Pagnini and Morgan (1996) collected life histories recorded by federal writers during the Great Depression and concluded that African American women had more babies born out of wedlock than White women because of this issue
What is the stigma of bearing a child outside a marital relationship for many of the White women
400
Name one of the two historical events that lead to the expansion of evaluation research
What is the Great Depression or World War II
400
This type of evaluation research relies primarily on qualitative data based on interviews with managers and key staff to assess in advance whether a program can be evaluated within the available time and resources
What is evaluation research
400
Systematic method of developing a causal diagram showing the structure of action underlying some chronology of events; the result is an idiographic causal explanation
What is event structure analysis
500
Academic consortium that archives datasets online from major surveys and other social science research and makes them available for use by others
What is the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
500
Research that compares changes in the percentage of births to unmarried women across multiple countries from 1980 to the present would be an example of which one of the four types of historical/comparative research
What is comparative historical research
500
An approach to evaluation research that expects researchers to be responsible primarily to the people involved with the program
What is stakeholder approach
500
In this popular tale about a needs assessment, the manager of a 20-story office building solved the problem of receiving many complaints about the slowness of the elevators by hiring an evaluation researcher who recommended this solution
What is the installation of large mirrors installed next to the elevators
500
Data collected through intensive interviews with participants in past events
What is an oral history
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