Describe and explain the 4 areas where political considerations can impact the work of university faculty in conducting agency evaluations.
What will be an ideal response?
The four areas are: (1) Time: faculty members may not have the time to dedicate to an agency evaluation due to their own duties in teaching, advising students, university service and other research. Agencies may need to start evaluations immediately due to funding or other contingencies with minimum planning or advance notice, and faculty may not be able to meet the agency’s time frame. (2) Perspective: a university researcher may have a thorough knowledge of research and evaluation methods, but these may not fit with the reality of agency practice. Researchers may get frustrated with stressful and changing agency environments and may not be able to adapt what they believe to be pure research methods to the agency’s context. (3) Teamwork: university researchers may have difficulty assembling an evaluation team, including student assistants, and/or his/her own time. (4) Imprecision and ambiguity: rigorous, structured and carefully crafted research designs may not fit the reality of agency circumstances. Conflicts can arise over the agency’s desire to show effectiveness and the inability of the researcher to definitely assess effectiveness based on the research design.
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A. Increasing driving forces. B. Increasing resisting forces. C. Decreasing driving forces. D. Decreasing resisting forces.
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A. Agreement B. Consensus C. Cooperation D. Unanimity