Evaluation Research Methods
This is also referred to as applied research
What is evaluation research?
These rely on random selection of cases
What are probability sampling techniques?
What, how, when, and where of a thing
What is quality?
Variables are this when they vary together in a predictable way
What is correlated?
A conversation with a purpose
What is an interview?
This is a person or unit that enters a program
What are inputs?
The different characteristics or values a variable can take on
What are attributes?
The number of participants a focus group should not exceed
What is seven?
An characteristic of an individual, group, organization, or social phenomenon that changes
What is a variable?
A question that asks a research participant to respond to two issues at once
What is double-barreled?
An individual who is invested in a program's effectiveness
What is a stakeholder?
This type of variable has only two attributes
What is a dichotomy?
A person or group who is in a position to grant/deny access to a research setting
What is a gatekeeper?
This type of validity refers to the ability for an experimental research finding to be applicable to other settings
What is external?
The survey instrument containing the questions for a self-administered survey
What is a questionnaire?
An evaluation method in which the researcher uses a variety of data gathering techniques
What is the multiple methods technique?
The entire set of individuals or groups that is relevant to a research project
What is a population?
Using multiple sources to validate what is going on in a research study
What is triangulation?
The process by which a researcher decides how to measure the variables as they are defined conceptually
What is operationalization?
The person who answers questions on a survey
What is a respondent?
Information about service delivery, system outputs, outcomes, or operations that are available to any program inputs
What is feedback?
The ability of a measure to consistently measure the concept it claims to measure.
What is reliability?
These protect the privacy of research subjects by ensuring researchers cannot be compelled to release information that could be used to identify research subjects
What are certificates of confidentiality?
A relationship has this when the cause precedes the effect
What is temporal order?
These provide interviewers with a way to draw out more complete stories from subjects
What are probing questions?