Rueben Is on a Committee Tasked with Making a Recommendation

question 14

Multiple Choice

Rueben is on a committee tasked with making a recommendation to the county about what to do with inmates. The jail is 100% full, and the committee needs to decide whether to build a new jail, expand the existing one, or recommend making more use of community corrections alternatives. In this case, Rueben and his colleagues are doing a _______________.

• A) Process evaluation
• B) Outcome evaluation
• C) Policy analysis
• D) Impact evaluation

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A statement or hypothesis that assumes there is no significant difference or effect, serving as the basis for statistical testing.

Level of Significance

The threshold chosen for determining whether a statistical result is significant in hypothesis testing, typically set at values like 0.05, 0.01, etc.

Rejected

In statistical analysis, this term refers to the decision to dismiss the null hypothesis when the test statistic falls outside of the designated critical region.

P-value

The probability of obtaining test results at least as extreme as the ones observed during the test, assuming that the null hypothesis is true.