Essay

Final Exam Total 4 pages

This is an open-book essay exam. Although this is open-book, you must work alone.

Select any two (2) questions and answer in essay format. You must include the question with

your answer. In other words, type or copy/paste the question, then answer it. For the next

question you choose, type or copy/paste the question, then answer it. Please cite appropriately

using APA.

Although the questions are topic/chapter specific to our textbook, you should include material

from other parts of the textbook. The majority of information must come from our text.

However, you can use ancillary sources to support the information you include from the text. If

you use ancillary sources, be sure to cite.

Although no maximum length is required, you must have a minimum of two full pages for each

answer, not including the question. It would be difficult to fully answer any of these questions in

fewer pages. Required Textbook: Joseph S. Wholey, Harry P. Hatry, and Kathryn E. Newcomer, editors, Handbook of Practical ProgramEvaluation, Latest Edition(4th). San Francisco CA: Jossey-Bass/Wiley Imprint.

SELECT TWO QUESTIONS FROM THE FOLLOWING…..

1. A large city is revamping its public housing program. It has begun demolishing large, older,

outdated housing projects and relocating the residents to dispersed locations throughout the city

where low-income housing is interspersed with more expensive housing units. The city is

provided a wide array of services to the families being relocated and would like to conduct an

evaluation to ascertain the effectiveness of the services and their delivery. Plan and outline the

steps you would take to conduct an evaluability assessment for this activity. Describe some of

the problems one might expect to encounter and approaches to overcoming these problems.

2.Camp Great Outdoors operates eleven summer camps in Georgia, North Carolina, and Maine.

The camps have three sessions over the summer that each last twenty-six days. During that time

campers participate in activities that include: football, basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, rock

climbing, rappelling, cliff jumping, water skiing, hiking, and spelunking (caving). With such

dangerous activities involving children ranging from seven to eighteen years of age, safety is a

primary concern of Camp Great Outdoors. Its motto is “Safety first, safety last, and safety in-

between.” In order to lower liability insurance and improve the less-than-desirable safety record

of the camp due to accidents that occurred last summer, Camp Great Outdoors is looking to

develop a performance monitoring system to track the reported injuries that result from its

activities. The directors of the camp desire to know a breakdown of the injuries by session,

severity, and activity. You have been hired to create a performance monitoring system for Great

Outdoors before the first summer session starts in three months. Describe how you might

develop a performance monitoring system that can pinpoint dangerous activities, thus lowering

liability insurance payments and increasing overall safety for the campers.

3.You have been asked by Homes Against Homelessness, a nonprofit organization that operates

programs assisting people without homes, to conduct an evaluation for presentation to

philanthropists who have donated to—or might donate to—the nonprofit. Being an expert in the

program evaluation field, you suggest to the nonprofit that a logic model could provide a

demonstration of what the nonprofit does and how it impacts the community. Explain to the

nonprofit the steps taken to create a logic model. Include an explanation of how each step of

logic model provides insight and purpose for each part of the organization. Create a possible

logic model for the organization based on activities such as providing shelter, food, clothing, job

training, and childcare to those without homes.

4.A member of Congress who chairs the congressional committee that funds Medicare is

interested in the effectiveness of a new weight control medication that the Medicare program has

just begun covering. Of particular interest is the change in the health of recipients of the new

drug after six months and after twelve months. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services

has retained you to conduct an evaluation of the effectiveness of the medication when given to

Medicare patients and prepare a report that can be used to report back to Congress. Identify some

of the threats to validity that might arise from the design of such an evaluation and how you

might overcome these threats.

5.A Florida school district wants to know if a service-learning program would successfully

engage otherwise uninvolved youth in order to improve their attitude toward community service.

Depending on the results, they will implement a mandatory community service requirement for

graduating seniors. They are currently planning on letting students voluntarily sign up for service

learning. Draft a proposal explaining why a randomized controlled trial is a more appropriate

evaluation method, as opposed to simply letting teens sign up for the program—addressing

validity issues, costs, and what form of randomization would be most appropriate to meet their

needs.

6.Legal Services for D.C. Prisoners is a nonprofit organization that advocates on behalf of

prisoners who lived in Washington, D.C. Recently the Federal Bureau of Prisons adopted a

policy to place D.C. prisoners in federal prison facilities located throughout the country. As part

of an effort to evaluate how the nonprofit can advocate on behalf of prisoners and their families

affected by this policy, you have been hired to create a survey. The survey will be distributed to a

sample of families in the D.C. area. The goal of the survey is to find out what the main concerns

of the family members are and how the nonprofit organization can adjust its activities to better

carry out its advocacy mission. Explain what steps you will take to create and administer the

survey. Include examples of survey questions, identify the population from which you will

sample, explain how you will obtain a proper sample, and describe how you will ensure the

validity and reliability of the data gathered.