Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation

1. Construct constitutive and operational definitions for any three (3) of the actions and outcome variables listed in the shaded box under Review Question 1 at the end of Chapter 6. (Note: The box includes Program expenditure, Equality of educational opportunity, Energy consumption, etc.

2. Identify three (3) policy problems listed in the shaded box under Review Question 5 and determine an appropriate indicator or index that would help determine whether each of the identified problems are being solved through government action. Justify your position on each. (Note: The box includes Work alienation, School dropouts, Poverty, etc.)

Poverty

What is Poverty?

Poverty is an old Problem

Measures of Poverty

Results of Poverty

Situation in Other countries

3. Construct valid rebuttals to the following argument using at least four (4) threats to validity:

(B) The greater the cost of an alternative, the less likely it is that the alternative will be pursued. (W) The enforcement of the maximum speed limit of 55 mph increases the costs of exceeding the speed limit. (I) the mileage death rate fell from 4.3 to 3.6 deaths per 100 million miles after the implementation of the 55-mph speed limit.

(C) The 55-mph speed limit (National Speed Law of 1973) has been definitely successful in saving lives.