1.) What makes event structure analysis a systematic method?
2.) How and why did evaluation research develop? How does it differ from other types of social science research?
3.) What is the difference between stakeholder and researcher orientation? Why does it matter in terms of results?
4.) Describe thee potential problems for stakeholder orientation in evaluation research, in general and using the example of reducing welfare payments in favor of a workfare program.
5.) Why is evaluation research more political than other forms of social research?
6.) Discuss the principal ethical problems in surveys. why are surveys generally regarded as having fewer ethical dilemmas?
7.) In what situations is it ethical to deceive participants in an experiment? Provide an example that would ethically allow deception and an example in which the ethics of deception are more ambiguous.
8.) Why is secondary data analysis so popular with social scientists?
9.) How and why did evaluation research develop? How does it differ from other types of social science research?