MEERA Evaluation Glossary

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 Educational impacts

Educational impacts are outcomes of education that can contribute to meeting long-term goals.  Educa ...

 Effect size

An effect size is a measure of the strength of a relationship between two variables.  Thus, in progr ...

 Environmental impacts

Environmental impacts are positive or negative effects that human actions have on the environment. ...

 Evaluation design

An evaluation design consists of the methods used by the evaluation.  This typically involves decidi ...

 Evaluation questions

Evaluation questions are the questions that will be answered by evaluators through data collection, ...

 Evaluation report

There are two common types of evaluation reports, progress reports and final reports. Progress repor ...

 Experimental design research

Experimental design research is a research approach where the researcher controls the selection of p ...

 Extreme case sample

An extreme case sample is one in which the researcher chooses participants who are highly unusual ca ...