When There Is Disagreement About the Choice of the Criteria

question 10

Multiple Choice

When there is disagreement about the choice of the criteria of program effectiveness, the best procedure for program evaluators would be to

• A) take over the choice of criteria.
• B) use the criteria preferred by the stakeholder who is funding the evaluation.
• C) use the criteria preferred by the program staff.
• D) arrange discussions among stakeholders to find common concerns and to gain agreement to measure a variety of criteria.

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Definitions:

Quality

The degree of excellence or superiority of something, often measured against other similar things.

Open Sentence

In predicate logic, a statement with a free variable.

Variable

1. In symbolic logic, a symbol that stands for some, but any, unnamed individual thing; 2. In statistics, a trait regarded as a generic attribute that can exist in different degrees (values).

Closed Sentence

In predicate logic, a statement in which every variable is bound by a quantifier.