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1. A community agency wanted to know if their school condom distribution program was having an effect on rates of STDs among teens. The only available and relevant secondary data was collected a few years prior, but the stakeholders did not believe that this data reflected their community. In addition, the local school board denied evaluators access to their students to collect evaluation data. Therefore, the program staff was forced to restate their question to focus on number of students who received free condoms from the program over the past year. Restating the evaluation question upheld which of the following evaluation question characteristics?
Relevant data can be collected
Leads to information that decision makers want and feel they need
More than one answer is possible
All of the above
2. When the distance between variables is equal, this is known as what type of variable?
Ordinal variable
Interval variable
Moderating variables
Nominal variables
3. Read the following statement and provide the correct example of measures of inputs or outputs: Provides a rank.
Mediating variable
Mediating variable
Ordinal variable
Nominal variables
4. An example of the level of measurement, units of observation is: if a car seat safety program targets the entire family, a survey evaluation must also target the entire family and not just assess mothers' habits or just be filled out by mothers.
True
False
5. Intervention effect evaluations are best when designed after program implementation.
True
False
6. The goal of _________________ is to generate new knowledge for prediction.
research
evaluation
observation
7. Which of the following is a criterion for a good evaluation?
A decision process that is inclusive and thoughtful.
All of the above
Stakeholders need to be able to believe the evaluation results and the evaluator.
Stakeholders need to trust that the evaluation and the evaluator use scientific and ethical methods.
The most feasible and reasonable design must be used.
8. Techniques used to collect data are the methods.
True
False
9. State whether each of the following example is an issue of reliability or validity: Data entry errors
Reliability
Validity
10. At which level of the Public Health Pyramid is the evaluation the most straight forward?
Enabling services level
Direct services level
Infrastructure level
Population-based services level