Program Evaluation
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- Reactive
- distorted by presence of evaluator
- Typical case sampling
- program subjects that typify norm
- reliable
- consistently and dependably measures concept with accuracy
- Saturation
- when data reveal repetition and redundancy, confirm existing findings.
- internal consistency
- tool to measure reliability, see how well each item in scale correlate with scale as whole
- shadow price
- attempt to reflect real cost of goods and sevices
- Patterns of use
- client utilization data: rates-under-treatment approach: records, reports, files coming directly from agency
- Comparative need
- inferred measure of need from finding characteristics in population similar to those receiving services
- Deviant case sampling
- to learn about outliers
- client satisfaction
- relevance, response, relationship, results
- Snowball sampling
- needed when interest population is isolated, hard to reach tapping into existing social networks
- emic codes
- indigenous categories of meaning, categories constructed from participant classification
- subscales
- to measure multiple dimensions of functioning
- index
- creating new variable as sum of other variables ie. 25 items to measure client's anxiety
- criterion validity
- instrument can be validated by external criterion
- construct validity
- testing presumed relationships of scale to other variables
- Mixed methods
- mixing quantitative and qualitative methods
- Reflexivity
- self-monitoring to note personal biases
- split-half
- dividing scale in half to see how well each half correlates with another
- test-retest
- reliability when scale is adminstered to same group on repeated occasions
- external validity
- extent to which finding is generalizable
- validity
- when instrument corresponds to concept designed to measure
- triangulation
- relying on more than 1 type of data to compile findings and enhance accuracy
- Normative need
- condition/situation defined by an expert
- Evaluation research
- investigation to determine success of program
- service ticket
- initial application data file
- Operational definition
- way concept or variable is defined for evaluation purposes
- confidence level
- how likely to expect similar results on repeat study
- Expressed need
- demand/requests for service
- known-groups technique
- adminstering instrument to 2 different groups to find differences in responses
- Social indicators
- variables used to gauge extent of social problem
- etic codes
- view from outside, researcher constructed codes
- face validity
- when collegue's look over instrument and agree it will be useful to measure concept
- scale
- item that measures solitary concept ie. anxiety
- Service philosophy
- no one is turned away", or certain eligibility guidelines
- Ecological fallacy
- using social indicators to estimate conditions of persons in geographic area.
- predictive validity
- type of criterion validity of future behavior
- negative case anaylsis
- finding cases that refute findings
- group research designs
- tool to examine program outcomes
- Felt need
- perceptions of need determined by consulting actual clients
- Program evaluation
- provide information to be used to improve social programs
- efficiency
- measuring cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis
- inter-rater reliability
- improve observer matching through training and role playing
- content validity
- if concept is represtned in items used in scale
- concurrent validity
- type of criterion validity to predict current status
- alpha
- reliability coefficient