McDavid et al. (2019). Chp. 4.
McDavid, James C., Huse, Irene & Hawthorn, Laura R.L. (2019). Performance evaluation and performance measurement: An introduction to practice (3rd edition). Sage Publications, Ltd. ISBN 9781506337067
Review each question and answer accordingly. For short answer responses, use full sentences and leverage the resources in the module to guide your responses. If you cite or closely paraphrase the readings or videos, make sure you adequately cite that material.
- Measurement validity types do not exhaust the possible types of construct validity. True/False
- According to McDavid (2019), what is a unit of analysis? Second, provide three examples of unit of analysis that could be part of an evaluation.
- Instruments drafted by the evaluator should be pretested before they are used in a program evaluation. True/False
- Among the four levels of measurement, nominal measures have two properties: they categorize, and they rank. True/False
- Fundamentally, measurement is the process of developing and applying instruments that translate constructs into observables. True/False
- Annual income expressed in dollars is a good example of a measure that has all the properties of a ratio level of measurement. True/False
- To be valid, a measuring instrument must have no random error in the data that are collected using it. True/False
- Proxy measurement is where program outcomes are measured as a proxy for program outputs. True/False
- What are the key characteristics of ordinal measures? Give three examples.
- Interval measures have all the properties of nominal and ordinal measures. True/False
- Describe a process that you would use, including the measuring instrument and the actual data collection procedure, to measure the level of formal education of program participants in an evaluation of an employment training program. How would you know whether the measure was reliable? How would you assess the validity of the measure?
- According to McDavid et al. (2019), what are the key characteristics of nominal measures? Give three examples.
- If people are the main unit of analysis in an evaluation of an employment training program, then their employment status (currently employed versus currently not employed) is an example of a construct that could be measured for each person in the study. True/False
- To calculate test-retest reliability, an evaluator must be using a before-after research design where program participants are measured before and after they receive the program. True/False
- What are the key characteristics of interval measures? Give three examples.
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