Program Planning & Design Flashcards
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A program design incorporates both individual skill-building sessions and peer-support groups. This approach reflects which program design principle?
Answer: Multi-level or ecological intervention design
Addressing both individual and social/peer levels reflects an ecological model, which recognizes that behavior change occurs across multiple interacting systems.
When is a formative evaluation most appropriately conducted?
Answer: During program development or early implementation to improve design
Formative evaluation occurs during development or early implementation to identify improvements before the program is fully scaled.
A CPE candidate is reviewing a program that targets all students in a school regardless of individual risk level. This is an example of which prevention strategy?
Answer: Universal prevention
Universal prevention targets an entire population without screening for individual risk, aiming to reduce incidence across the whole group.
Which stakeholder engagement strategy is most effective for ensuring program design reflects community priorities?
Answer: Hosting community advisory boards during the planning phase
Community advisory boards engage residents and stakeholders as co-designers during planning, embedding local priorities and increasing program relevance and trust.
A program designer chooses to phase in program components over 18 months rather than launching all at once. This staged rollout approach is intended primarily to:
Answer: Allow iterative learning and quality improvement before full scale
Staged rollouts enable planners to learn from early implementation cycles and refine components before committing to full-scale delivery.
An evaluator notes that a program's outcome measures are collected only at program exit with no baseline data. Which evaluation limitation does this most represent?
Answer: Inability to assess change due to missing pre-program measurement
Without baseline data, it is impossible to determine whether any observed post-program status represents change attributable to the program.
Which document provides the most comprehensive framework for aligning program planning, implementation, and evaluation into a coherent strategy?
Answer: A program evaluation plan linked to a logic model
A program evaluation plan grounded in a logic model connects intended activities, outcomes, and measurement strategies, ensuring alignment across all program phases.