EXERCISE14.1-Designing Evaluation Research

Find a description of a social program in a daily newspaper or use the following article about a hypothetical program.  (If you select a newspaper article, attach it to the exercise.)

Design a research project to evaluate either “Meet the Pets Day” or your local news paper by answering the questions that follow.

1. What is an appropriate research question that your evaluation should seek to answer or a hypothesis that you would test?
2. Describe the social program that is being offered.
3. Who are the program’s participants?
4. In addition to the program’s participants, who are the other stakeholders?
5. What is the goal or intended outcome of the program?
6. Describe how you would decide if the program was successful in meeting its goal by designing an outcome evaluation study.  Be sure to describe the study design you would use, whom your sample would include, and how you would measure the dependent variable.
7. Comment on the internal validity of the study you designed.
8. What are the ethical considerations you would need to consider if you were interested in doing this study?
9. What are the practical issues (time,money,and access) that you would need to consider if you were interested in doing this study?

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