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nautica902

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Which of the following is a potential biasing factor in gathering data for program evaluation?
 
  A) Clients that feel the program has been helpful may inflate effectiveness ratings to insure continued funding.
  B) Staff members may inflate their ratings of effectiveness because they need to feel they are doing important work and not wasting their time.
  C) Clients may feel that better programs could be implemented and may therefore deflate their ratings of the current program.
  D) All of the above

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More than any other kind of research project, program evaluation requires
 
  A) control of possible confounding variables.
  B) political and communication skills on the part of the researcher.
  C) careful analyses of statistical data.
  D) representativeness of samples.


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fwbard

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Reply #1 on: Aug 4, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B


nautica902

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Reply 2 on: Aug 4, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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Gracias!

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