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21. Which of the following is not correct with respect to process evaluations?

a. information about program implementation can be linked to outcome measures, even when accompanied by a process evaluation

b. process evaluation aids in interpreting results from impact assessments

c. process evaluations are useful when a researcher is interested in the performance of specific tasks within a program

d. process evaluations assume that tasks within a program are linked to program outcomes

22. Policy analysis is used to _____.

a. help design alternative courses of action

b. select a policy

c. seek explanations

d. select right employees

23. Policy analysis searches for _____.

a. infeasible courses of action

b. the generation of information and collection of evidence of the benefits

c. the consequences that would follow the implementation of various courses of action

d. fluidity and does not always “start at the beginning and conclude at the end.”

24. The relationship between policy analysis and program evaluation is best characterized as _____.

a. both relying upon clearly specified goals and objectives

b. program evaluation used to test the achievement of goals and objectives worked out through policy analysis

c. both a and b are correct

d. there is no relationship between policy analysis and program evaluation

25. Any public policy discussion involves politics. Which of the following is not accurate with respect to ethics and the political aspects of applied research?

a. there is no set of political norms that are agreed upon by all criminal justice researchers

b. just as there are codes for ethical conduct for researchers, there are formal codes of accepted political conduct

c. ethics of criminal justice research deals more with the methods used while political issues are more concerned with the substance and use of the research

d. there is no formal code of accepted political conduct