The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program was used in the text as an example of what problem or barrier in program evaluation?
A) Failure to plan for evaluation
B) Evaluation results were unclear
C) Lack of program stability
D) Evaluation results were not accepted
Social agencies are affected by
A) Demographic factors.
B) Funding from the government.
C) State laws.
D) All of these affect social agencies.
____________ is a statistical procedure to compare the expected frequencies in a study to the observed frequencies.
A) Statistical significance
B) Inferential statistics
C) Chi-square test
D) Standard deviation
The political economy of a social agency:
A) Has little effect on its survival and influence.
B) Is a key element to its survival and influence.
C) Has to do with the goods and services it provides.
D) Is the agency's source of income.
____________ outcomes focus on changes in the client's quality of life.
A) Practice
B) Functional
C) Quantified
Why would an elected official choose to invest time and funding on a certain issue?
A) That issue is important to his constituents.
B) His lobbyists already have experience with that issue.
C) He feels that that issue has been ignored.
D) That issue will help him advance politically.
A decrease in street shootings in a neighborhood after police begin patrolling the area daily is an example of:
A) Output
B) Outcome
C) Random sample
D) Reliability
What is the first challenge of a non-incumbent once they have decided to enter a race?
A) Achieve name recognition
B) Raise funds to purchase media advertising
C) Get on the ballot
D) All of the above
If a new test can determine how good a social worker you will be three years from now, we say it has:
A) Statistical significance
B) Predictive validity
C) Measured reliability
D) Literary validity
The electoral process is highly competitive because:
A) Only one candidate can head each party.
B) Only one candidate can win the election.
C) Every candidate believes in a different cause.
D) Funding is scarce.
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