What the?
These people should make evaluation questions.
Who is program evaluators in collaboration with key stakeholders?
These are the resources invested into a program (staff time, funding, materials, etc.)
What are inputs?
Who are stakeholders/careholders?
Define the difference between population and sample.
Population: The entire group you ultimately want to draw conclusions about.
Sample: The smaller group actually selected to participate in the study.
Name of the competition that Yanni competed in
What is the Hultz prize?
Three common pitfalls of evaluation questions.
Varies.
List five activities for the program of this class
The main point that Rog tried to bring to light in his reading.
Context should not be an afterthought. It should be in the foreground.
A type of test that measures the change from the start of the program to the end of the program.
What is a pre/post test?
The backbone and guiding light of your evaluation.
What is your evaluation question(s)?
Define the three types of evaluation questions that we have explored this semester.
Outcome Evaluation: Assesses the changes or effects a program produces, such as improvements in skills, behavior, or well-being.
Process Evaluation: Examines how a program is implemented, including activities delivered, participation, and fidelity to the plan.
Cost Evaluation: Analyzes the program’s costs relative to its outcomes to determine efficiency or value for money.
List all components of a logic model in order.
What are inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, impacts?
In a SWOT analysis, limited public transportation affecting participant attendance would most likely be categorized as this.
What is a threat?
A program serves 500 participants, but the evaluator surveys only the 40 who respond to an email invitation. This sampling approach is best described as this.
What is convenience sampling?
This research design randomly assigns participants to treatment and control groups. It is considered the "gold standard" in traditional scientific research.
What is a randomized controlled trial (RCT)?
What is the following evaluation question missing: Did the mentoring program improve student confidence?
What is a measurable and time-bound indicator?
The difference between an output and an outcome.
Output: The direct products or activities delivered by a program, usually countable and immediate.
Outcome: The changes or effects that occur as a result of the program, including short-, intermediate-, or long-term impacts.
This activity, usually used by community organizers, has you map stakeholders into quadrants based on their interest level and influence over a program.
What is power-mapping?
The program goal is to increase civic engagement.
Name three measurable indicators that could capture this outcome.
What are voter registration status, number of community meetings attended, participation in advocacy efforts, contacting elected officials, etc.
The college where your professor did her undergraduate degree
What is Rhodes College?
Evaluators often debate which type of evaluation should come first: process or outcome. Which comes first, and why? (Think about the main critique of the restorative practices evaluation.
What is a process evaluation, because it assesses how the program is being implemented and ensures activities are delivered correctly before measuring outcomes?
This key feature of a logical model, usually depicted by lines or arrows, clearly explains how various components of a logic model connect to one another and the why behind a program's logic.
What is a theory of change?
List all components of a PESTLE analysis
What is political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental?
Define all components of S.M.A.R.T. indicators.
Specific
Measureable
Achieveable
Relevant
Timebound
Name every person in the class and which group they are in.
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