Question 19
Which of the following is a source for program variability?
Answer
Staff preferences and interest
Material availability and appropriateness
Participant expectation and receptivity
Physical environment of site and organizational support
All of the above
Question 20
Qualitative, in-depth interviews with individuals who understand the priority population are called:
Answer
Informal interviews
Substantive interviews
Key-informant interviews
Targeted-individual interviews
Question 21
A threat to external validity that occurs when attitudes projected onto individuals cause them to act in a certain way is called:
Answer
Hawthorne effect
Placebo effect
Social desirability effect
Expectancy effect
Question 22
A good example of observation in evaluation design would be pretests and posttests.
Answer
True
False .
Question 23
The design O1 X O2 is a diagram of a quasi-experimental pretest posttest design.
Answer
True
False .
Question 24
The threat to internal validity called mortality refers to having participants leave the study between pretest and posttest.
Answer
True
False .
Question 25
Which of the following is not a threat to internal validity?
Answer
History
Maturation
Social Desirability
Compensation Rivalry
None of the above
Question 26
Maximizing internal and external validity would help to prevent evaluation failure.
Answer
True
False .
Question 27
In an evaluation of a full coverage program, an experimental design could be used as an evaluation design.
Answer
True
False .
Question 28
Inappropriate selection of experimental and control participants could decrease the internal validity of evaluation findings.
Answer
True
False .
Question 29
What is a major method to control for threats to internal validity?
Answer
Randomization
Instrumentation
Maturation
History
Statistical Regression
Question 30
Attitude, level of satisfaction with a program, and socioeconomic status are example of:
Answer
Nominal-level measurement
Ordinal-level measurement
Ratio measurement
Reliable measurement
