An agency began delivering a health program less than a year ago. The agency administrator wants to know how it is going and whether changes are needed. Which of the following would be the appropriate type of evaluation?

a. Formative evaluation
b. Summative evaluation
c. Cost evaluation
d. Impact evaluation
e. Outcome evaluation

Impact evaluation

Explanation:

Impact evaluation evaluates the changes that are attributed to an intervention like a project, policy or program both the deliberate ones and the accidental ones.

Impact evaluation tries to answer the casualty questions. This means that impact evaluation seek changes in outcome which are directly attributable to the program. Impact evaluation helps answer questions like what works and what doesn't work. The agency administrator will use an impact evaluation to know if the program is going as planned or if there will be need for changes.

e) outcome evaluation

Explanation: The agency administrator wants to know how it is going and whether changes are needed let us consider both impact and outcome evaluations

Impact evaluation is concerned with the assessment of the immediate effects of the intervention and usually corresponds with the measurement of intervention objectives.

On the other hand, Outcome evaluation is concerned with measuring the longer - term effects of the intervention and this usually corresponds to the intervention goal.

Outcome evaluation will be appropriate

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