APSY 2240- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 85 pages long!)

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Time of rapid change and constant movement. Similar to infancy, but not as recognized. School, work, volunteering, and everything in between. People with various interests/perspectives: program employees, programs consumers, taxpayers, government officials, evaluators. Data is open to interpretation: evaluation requires classifying, categorizing, and judging, practical significance can be value-laden. Evaluations guide decisions about key resources: time, money, staff. Political posturing in evaluation: planning phase: deny need for eval, claim too cumbersome. How to manage politics: independent evaluator, maintain integrity of evaluation. Recognize that politics is part of the process: develop conflict resolution skills, be practical. Value-neutral evaluator: separates politics and evaluation conceptually and in practice. Value-sensitive evaluator: serves an active role in democratizing the evaluation process, assuring the voices of the most disenfranchised will be heard but not becoming advocates for what they say. Emerging adulthood is around ages 18 to 26. Individual differences vs. universals etc. are universals. Menopause, physical changes (such as change in skin and hair), death,

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