PSY 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Mean Absolute Difference, Explained Variation, Summary Statistics
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It is applied research with a focus on evaluation: program evaluators also determine if the program is truly needed, is cost effective, is being run efficiently, and they will offer suggestions for improvement, purpose of program evaluation. Formative evaluation: i. e. , finding ways to improve the program as it is being implemented. Summative evaluation: i. e. , summarizing the outcomes of the program at its completion: determining need. Needs analysis: a way of determining whether there are enough people who would benefit from and use the program and whether the program would meet the needs of those people. Determining need might involve examining available data, surveying potential users of the program, and/or conducting focus groups within the target community: selecting outcome measures. Care must be taken to match the outcome measures with the goals of the program and to minimize any bias that might be introduced by the people doing the measuring: ethical constraints on program evaluation research.
