Program Evaluation

1. By this point in the semester, you’ve had time to learn something about your field/clinical placement. Given what you’ve learned about the organization and program evaluation, what are some options for evaluating a policy, program, or initiative? Consider McDavid’s discussion about program evaluation: what type of program evaluation would you likely conduct? Use the language of program evaluation to respond to the question.

• my field placement is South Carolina Department of Social Services, Foster Care.

2. McDavid et. al. (2019) identify several types of validity. From the list below, select the types they discussed.

• Statistical conclusions validity
• Reliability
• Covariation
• Construct validity
• External validity
• Internal validity

3. Fill in the blank

• Validity, broadly, relates to the _______ to which the _______ are capable of credibly describing _______ in the real world.

4. Match terms to definitions

Terms

• External validity
• Measurement validity
• Plausible Rival Hypothesis
• Independent variable
• Operationalized
• Dependent variable
• Quasi-experimental
• Temporal asymmetry
• Covariation
• Retrospective Pre-Tests
• Triangulation

Definitions

• Research design that do not rely on random assignment or control groups.
• Intended to strengthen confidence in the validity of measures used in social research.
• Factors or context that limit the generalizability of the results of the policy, program, or initiative.
• A variable that we expect will be affected by one or more independent variables.
• The variable that is said to be the cause precedes the variable that is the effect.
• There are other factors that could plausibly explain the relationship between the independent and dependent variable.
• Ask participants to estimate their pre-program level of knowledge or experience.
• When we measure constructs, we translate them into measurable operations.
• Empirical measures are valid with respect to the constructs they are intended to measure.
• As one variable varies, the other also changes either positively or negatively.
• An observable characteristic of the units of analysis that we expect to change or affect some other variable.

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