HECOL300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Logic Model, Selection Bias

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Human Ecology
• Course: HECOL300
• Professor: Janet Fast

Document Summary

Analysis: scienti c research aimed at designing, implementing and evaluating existing policies programs and other courses of government action. Policy relevant research: intended to inform the above but not necessarily referring to speci c instruments. Determining how a public policy has actually fared in action (howeltt et all 2009) Assessing the e ectiveness of a public policy in terms of its perceived intentions and results (gerston 1997) Evaluation is primarily about trying to gure out. Whether it met its objectives how far it fell short. What might be done to improve its impact. So there"s an element of learning that"s expected to result from evaluation learning how to do better next time. Prospective or anticipatory: focus is on proposed policies/policy instrument. Assess e ciency of delivery; ensure goals are being accomplished at least cost & least burden to citizens. Ideologically-based assessment of whether a policy has succeeded politically (was it politically popular)