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Evaluation Research: Determining the Impact of Social Interventions

This chapter explores evaluation research, its relevance to social interventions, the types of evaluation research designs, measurement methods, ethical considerations, and the reasons why evaluation research results are sometimes ignored. Additionally, it delves into social indicators research and its significance in understanding broader social processes.

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Evaluation Research: Determining the Impact of Social Interventions

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  1. Chapter 12 Evaluation Research

  2. Chapter Outline • Topics Appropriate To Evaluation Research • Formulating the Problem • Types of Evaluation Research Designs • The Social Context • Social Indicators Research

  3. Evaluation Research • Appropriate for any study of planned or actual social intervention. • Goal is to determine whether a social intervention has produced the intended result. • Results are not always well received.

  4. Types of Measurement in Evaluation Research • Outcome (response variable) • Experimental Context - aspects of the context of an experiment that might affect the experiment. • Experimental Stimulus (interventions) • Population - demographic variables as well as variables defining the population.

  5. Evaluation Research Designs • Experimental designs • Quasi-experimental designs • Time-series design • Nonequivalent control groups • Multiple Time-Series designs • Qualitative evaluations

  6. Ethical Issues • Social interventions being evaluated may raise ethical issues. • Evaluation research may be a mask for unethical behavior.

  7. Why Results Are Ignored • Implications may not be presented in a way that nonresearchers can understand. • Results sometimes contradict deeply held beliefs. • Vested interest in a program.

  8. Social Indicators Research • Provides an understanding of broader social processes. • Researchers are developing more refined indicators. • Research is being devoted to discovering the relationships among variables within whole societies.

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