Explain the primary differences between an assessment and an impact evaluation

What will be an ideal response?


Assessments – which can also be termed outcome evaluations – occur at the final stage of the S.A.R.A. problem-solving process. They seek to determine such things as whether or not the response occurred as planned, and all the response components worked – as measured by fewer calls for service, more arrests, fewer shots fired, and less crime in the area.

Impact evaluations, however, go further by establishing not only whether a COPPS initiative is associated with the outcomes, but whether it actually produced or caused them. Impact evaluation is an empirical process for determining if a problem declined and if the solution caused the decline. Evaluation begins at the moment the S.A.R.A. problem-solving process begins and continues through the completion of the effort. To determine what did in fact happen to the problem, an impact evaluation is needed. Succinctly stated, an impact evaluation asks the following questions: Did the problem decline? If so, did the response cause the decline?

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