The Kirkpatrick Model is commonly used to perform this task in industry and education, breaking it down into outcomes of reaction, learning, behavior, and results. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this task, which judges how a program is meeting goals and is distinct from assessment. Students accomplish this task through surveys at the end of a college course to give feedback on the instruction.
ANSWER: evaluation [accept course evaluation; prompt on rating]
[10h] The first level of the Kirkpatrick Model can be assessed using these common survey scales, which might ask participants to rate enjoyment of a course from 1 to 5, with 1 being “strongly disliked” and 5 being “strongly liked.”
ANSWER: Likert scales
[10e] Program evaluation can also utilize this general type of data, which, according to the book Designing Social Inquiry, shares a “logic of inference” with the contrasting quantitative type of data.
ANSWER: qualitative [prompt on specific types of qualitative data like interview data, focus group data, or field observations by asking “can you be less specific?”]
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