1. What are three factors that contributed to the growth of health programs evaluation over the past three decades? Why are they important?
2. Describe Prospective Evaluaitons and Restrospective Evalautions.
3. Name the two basic types of evaluations and describe in one sentence the intent of each evaluation.
4. Describe the two underlying theories common to most programs. Briefly describe each theory and how the two theories are related to each other.
5. List the 5 components that should be included in a well written objective.
6. Write an objective for a fictional health care program or a health program you are familiar with (be sure the objective is written in the proper form). Then write an impact evaluation question and an implementation evaluation question for the objective.
7. What are the requirements for making causal inferences in an impact evaluation?
8. Describe why it is important to use valid and reliable measures in impact evaluations.
9. Give one reason why a quasi-experimental design might be used instead of a traditional experimental design.