Question

Which of the following topics would be appropriate for evaluation research? Examining whether fee reductions at the local swimming pool increases pool use. Examining whether women who get mammograms detect breast cancer earlier than women who do not. Examining whether changes in speed limits influence traffic fatalities. Examining whether the use of mediation in divorces results in "fairer" settlements. All of these choices are appropriate topics for evaluation research.

Answer 1

Answer:

The best answer choice for the question: Which of the following topics would be appropriate for evaluation research, would be: All of these choices are appropriate topics for evaluation research.

Explanation:

The reason for this being the best answer comes from learning that evaluation research has the purpose of evaluating, improving, and influencing, a program that has been set into motion by a group, an institution, or an organization. Since these programs, specifically of the social order, have goals, and purposes, then evaluation research allows an organization to measure if a plan is possible, how it will impact society, and as it moves along, whether it is meeting the standards, reaching the goals, or if adjustments and changes might be needed. It uses statistical analysis, but also observation, and constant evaluation, for this method of research to work. Evaluation Research is divided into two groups: Formative, and Summative. While Formative seeks to influence the beginning stages of a program with the goal of finding if a program will respond to the needs of a community, or society, Summative comes more at the beginning and end, when the program has already started and is issuing the first visible, measurable results. In the case of the topics in this question, all of them are questions that seek to find out if a specific action, within a program, is actually giving the results expected, and impacting in the way they are expected to. This is why the answer is the last one.