Chapter 18: Evaluation

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. ______ are especially useful when workers want to evaluate the impact of cultural differences.

a. Journals

b. Quantitative methods

c. Scales

d. Qualitative methods

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Evaluation Design

Difficulty Level: Methods

2. ______ represent a naturally occurring example of a control group.

a. Wait-listed individuals

b. Individuals who have already graduated from the group

c. Members of similar groups in other agencies

d. Demographically similar individuals in the community

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Evaluation Design

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Socially just research is ______.

a. quantitative

b. qualitative

c. participatory

d. focused exclusively on diversity

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Justice and Evaluation

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Which of the following is an example of baseline data?

a. a worker tracking how often a child is able to engage in positive social interactions with others after participating in a social skills group

b. a member journaling how often they experience anxiety over the course of the group

c. a parent tracking how often they yell at their daughter after the first session of a parenting group

d. a member reflecting on how confident they felt speaking in groups as the group closed

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Design

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. ______ is/are an individualized method of measuring individual progress toward a goal.

a. Values Clarification Rating

b. Behavioral Counts

c. Task Accomplishment Measures

d. Goal Attainment Scaling

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Goal Attainment Scaling

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Psychological instruments are useful for evaluation, but when used in socially just practice, workers must ensure that ______.

a. they are culturally and linguistically appropriate for members

b. they have been validated

c. the agency sanctions their use

d. findings are disseminated to improve practice

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Psychological Instruments

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Process recordings are especially useful at helping workers understand and evaluate ______.

a. group progress toward goals and purposes

b. member progress toward individual goals

c. relationships and interactions between members and between members and the worker

d. member motivations for being in the group

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Group Recording

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. A typical goal of analyzing member and worker statements is to evaluate whether the number of ______ increases over time.

a. member-to-member

b. member-to-worker

c. worker-to-member

d. worker-to-worker

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Measurement of Group Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Evaluating ______ involves the study of a group as a whole system, changes in its development, and interactions in its subsystems.

a. group agreements

b. power structures

c. sociometrics

d. group processes

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Measurement of Group Process

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. ______ are often used to measure environmental change.

a. Behavior counts

b. Sociometric measures

c. Official reports

d. Process recordings

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Official Reports

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. Involving members in data analysis represents a significant threat to validity.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Analysis of Data

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. Accurate evaluation involves a comparison to a “norm”

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Measures of Individual Change of Members

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Group structures in the form of communication patterns and power structures are potential targets to evaluate in group work.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Measurement of Group Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Efforts to understand member experiences can provide valuable measures of environmental change.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Member Experiences

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Evaluating group work outcomes is unnecessary when operating from a framework of social justice.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Summary

Difficulty Level: Medium