Assignment:
Creating a Measurement Strategy for the Program Outcome Questions
Program Name: First Place for Youth-Independent Living skills program.
Outcome Evaluation Questions and Measures:
Based on your outcome question, you will need to identify an existing measure that you will propose using to help answer that question.
You may draw this from an existing empirical article OR search using one of the databases for assessments and instruments such as PsycTests or Health and Psychosocial Instruments. In one pages, include the following:
1. Describe how you will operationalize your outcome question. What specific type of behavior, knowledge or attitudes will you look for?
2. Find an existing measure from a credible source (peer reviewed study, evaluation report, or measurement clearing house) and describe the measure. If the measure has a name, include the name, for example, "The Beck Inventory of Clinical Depression". In your description of the measure, include a description of the construct (what is being measured), what type of measure it is (survey, interview, observation protocol, etc.), how the measure is typically administered (self report, trained observer, etc.) Give an example of a question from the measure if that is available.
3. Discuss the strengths and limits of this measure for answering your evaluation question. How well does this measure address your evaluation question? Do the authors provide information about the reliability and validity of your measure? What does that information tell you about whether that measure can be trusted?
4. How would you use this measure in your study? For example, would your clients fill out a survey online? In paper? Or would you interview your participants in person? By phone? Identify one strategy you would use to make sure you do this well.
Outcome Question: what effects bring to youth after they join the Independent Living program?
I will use internal consistency reliability to measure my outcome question (survey).
Internal consistency reliability: Do similar items within a scale yield similar results?
The assignment should be in APA format (the information that cite from the article must be clearly show the author name first). For example, As the xxx author point out that......
Creating a Measurement Strategy for the Program Outcome Questions
Program Name: First Place for Youth-Independent Living Skills Program.
Evaluators need to collect data using measures (also referred to as data sources, indicators, instruments) that adequately capture the information needed to determine if a program is working well. Often, evaluators combining quantitative and qualitative measures to draw conclusions about a program's processes or impacts, which the measure provides some information to the evaluators, and together, multiple measures can provide useful insights into a program. This activity provides an opportunity to consider measures that address real-world outcome evaluation questions.
? Use the internal consistency reliability to measure the outcome evaluation question for the First Place for Youth-Independent Living Skills Program.
? I will provide the outcome evaluation question and the credible source (question number 2) to complete the assignment.