Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Program Evaluation

Question 1

What are the 5 components of an intervention program as an open system?

Answer 1

Input, transformation, outputs, environment, and feedback

Question 2

Define evaluation.

Answer 2

The making of a judgment about the amount, number or value of something: assessment.

Question 3

What are the two types of systems?

Answer 3

Closed vs. open system

Question 4

What are the names of the two evaluation typologies?

Answer 4

Formative evaluation and summative evaluation

Question 5

Define formative evaluation.

Answer 5

Evaluations which are conducted primarily for program improvement (which program components worked according to the plan and which ones failed to work).

Question 6

Define summative evaluation.

Answer 6

Evaluations which are conducted primarily for program assessment ( did the program meet its goals or not).

Question 7

“When the cook taste soup, that’s formative evaluation; when the guest taste it, that’s summative evaluation.”

Which evaluation has high priority?

Answer 7

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