Evaluation Can Be Used to

question 62

Multiple Choice

Evaluation can be used to

• A) document the program's progress.
• B) improve the effectiveness of the program.
• C) justify the program's need for a greater budget.
• D) all of these

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Definitions:

Specified

Clearly stated, described, or defined in detail.

Child-Rearing

Child-rearing encompasses the practices, strategies, and methods used by parents and caregivers to support and guide a child's development from infancy through adolescence.

Shaping

A method in behaviorism used to train a new behavior by successively reinforcing behaviors that approximate the desired behavior.

Extinction

The reduction and eventual disappearance of a learned response, typically when the stimulus originally eliciting the response no longer occurs.