CRIM 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Random Assignment, Randomized Controlled Trial, Internal Validity
1 Sep 2016
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Seeks to value the impact of interventions, if some result was produced. Evaluation research: refers to a research purpose rather than a specific method. Problem analysis: designed to help public officials choose from alternative future actions. Policy intervention: action taken for the purpose of producing some intended result. Evidence-based policy: actions of justice agencies are based on/linked to evidence used for planning and evaluation the policy process (fig 13. 1) Begins with demand supporting a new course of action or opposition to existing policy. Policymakers consider ultimate goals and actions to achieve those goals. Impacts - basic question about what a policy seeks to achieve. If some policy is undertaken, then we expect some result linking the process to evaluation. Evaluation seeks to link intended actions and goals of policy to empirical evidence that: Learning policy goals is a key first step in doing evaluation research. What are you trying to achieve? evaluability assessment (fig 13. 2)
