Chapter 11 - Evaluations Flashcards
The initial gathered data about dollar loss, number of incidents, frequency, and patterns of incidence against which final results are measured
Baseline
The mean, medium, and mode: commonly used to represent average results from a group of scores.
Central tendencies
What the student should be able to do at an expected level of achievement.
Competence
An analytical tool for assessing the pros and cons of moving forward with a business proposal.
Cost-benefit analysis
The scientific study of the frequency and distribution of injury and/or disease in human population, as well as factors affecting the health and illness of populations rather then individuals; it serves as a foundation for interventions made in the interest of public health and preventive medicine.
Epidemiology
A type of formative evaluation that determines whether an evaluation is feasible and how stakeholders can help shape its usefulness.
Evaluabiltiy assessment
A systematic assessment of information to provide useful feedback about program results, policies, technology, people, needs, activities and materials, and the extent to which a program caused those results.
Evaluation
A systematic, consistent, methodical, accurate, and valid form of evaluation.
Formal evaluation
The research and planning that helps the educator discover the vulnerabilities and scope of the problems facing a communicate that lead to the necessary prevention interventions and strategies.
Formative Evaluation
The measurement of a program’s short term effects and the extent to which its goals were attained.
Impact Evaluation
A type of evaluation that monitors the reliability and dependability of the program r technology delivery through ongoing observations, checklists, rubrics, and benchmarking.
Implementation evaluation
A less structured from of evaluation that still provides vital information for both formative and summarize evaluations.
Informal evaluation
A record of the number of correct and incorrect responses for each test question
Item Analysis
The average of all scores in a data set.
Mean
the midpoint of the range of all score in a data set, arranged in the order of value.
Median
A form of summarize evaluation that integrate the outcome estimates from multiple studies to arrive at an overall judgement on an evaluation.
Meta-analysis
The value or score that occurs the most frequently in a data set.
Mode
A type of formative evaluation that determines who needs a program, how great the need is, and what might work to meet those needs.
Needs assessment
The measurement of how well program objectives were met, with an eye, toward sustainable changes.
Outcome evaluation
An average per person when reporting information regarding costs, rate of occupancy in a given population, or comparisons among populations.
Per capita