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Discussion 14

1.Select and answer one of the following questions by Friday at 11:59 pm:

1.Which statistical tests could be used to determine the variance from a population mean? Give a brief description of their key differences.

2.What are the pros and cons of aggregating data to have a higher level of analysis? Under which conditions would ag­gregation be the preferred approach to handling the impact evaluation data?

3.The adult immunization program of Bowe County has reached the effect evaluation stage. Data have been collected from individuals on their motivation to get immunized, use of the enabling service of transportation to the clinics has been tracked, and random telephone calls throughout the county have asked about recollection of the mass media campaigns. The evaluation team is now developing a plan for the statistical analysis. What would be your questions to the team about the data? Depending on the answers, which recommendations would you make?

4.What is the importance of having both an effect size and significance? Which would be more important to subsequent decision making about continuing a program?

Discussion 15

1.Select and answer one of the following questions by Friday at 11:59 pm:

1.Which qualitative method(s) do you believe would be ideally suited to use at each stage of the planning and evaluation cycle? Justify your answer.

2.If you had a very limited budget but were committed to col­lecting and using some type of qualitative data to get at the perceptions of program participants, what might be your best option? Explain.

3.List the four criteria for assessing the rigor of qualitative studies. Imagine that you are planning to conduct in-depth interviews of program participants to assess program effects. For each criterion, give one example of how you would address that criterion in your plan for the outcome evaluation.

Discussion 16

1.Select and answer one of the following questions by Friday at 11:59 pm:

1.At each level of the public health pyramid, identify at least two factors that can affect the acquisition of informed consent from those involved in providing evaluation data about a health program.

2.What might be some effective strategies to prevent the various misuses of evaluations that were described?

3.In what ways might evidence-based practice (of any of the health disciplines) benefit from a meta-evaluation of programs to address a given health problem?

4.Using evaluation findings as part of feedback loops to im­prove or sustain health programs is predicated on a set of assumptions about humans and decision makers. What might be some of the assumptions that underlie this perspective?*

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