MPA Comprehensive Examination – Spring 2020
Important Message – Plagiarism
The strength of Sam Houston State University depends on academic and personal integrity. In this comprehensive examination, you must be honest and truthful. To this end, your written work is expected to be devoid of plagiarism. Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s work, words, or ideas as if they were your own. Here are three reasons why you must not plagiarize:
1. By far the deepest consequence to plagiarizing is the detriment to your intellectual and moral development: you will not learn anything and your ethics will be corrupted.
2. You must give credit where it is due, but adding your own evaluation and reflection will get you higher grades. Using and citing standard dictionaries and encyclopedia’s, such as Wikipedia, for graduate level concepts is highly discouraged.
3. Sam Houston State University punishes academic dishonesty. The most common penalty is suspension from the university, but students caught plagiarizing are also subject to lowered or failing grades as well as the possibility of expulsion.
Please be sure to review the Sam Houston State University Code of Student Conduct and Discipline, which is available in the Student Guidelines. A more in-depth discussion about using sources and avoiding plagiarism is available on the Purdue Online Writing Law website. If you have any questions about plagiarism, be sure to ask your professors.
Instructions:
· Provide your answer to each exam question in separate Word documents, one file per question, with the file title: lastname firstinitial Subject (e.g. Houston S Ethics in Government).
· In the word document, type your name and subject title in the Header (e.g. Sam Houston Area I – Public Service Perspective: PADM 5388 Ethics in Government).
· Format: typed, double-spaced, 1” margins, Times Roman or similar font, 12 pt.; parenthetical method of documentation with a Works Cited section per APA Style Manual or similar style manual.
· Length: minimum 7 pages for each question (except POLS 5377 Scope and Methods of Political Science). You do not need to re-state the exam questions in your answer.
· Due Date: responses must be submitted to Dr. Wen-Jiun Wang ([email protected]) and Administrative Associate Belinda Myers ([email protected]) by email no later than Monday, April 6th, 2020 by 9 AM CST.
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Area III. Public Policy and Analysis: POLS 5383 Program Evaluation
Instructions:
This question is comprised of several sub-questions. A passing answer will fully address each sub-question, provide sufficient explanation, relevant examples, and properly reference all sources. Equally important, students should consider their response to be representative of their professional capacity to communicate with a general audience using the written word. As such, submissions are to be well organized, written in clear prose, make effective use of headers, and be devoid of spelling and grammar errors.
Question:
You have been asked to write an essay to a group of public and nonprofit managers who are interested in learning about program evaluation. These managers have little, if any, experience with program evaluation. The managers have asked you to prepare a professionally written essay that addresses the following questions:
1. What is program evaluation and why should public and nonprofit organizations undertake program evaluations?
2. How does stakeholder analysis and stakeholder engagement contribute to a successful program evaluation?
3. What is a logic model, and how does the use of a logic model contribute to the successful evaluation of a program? Note: your answer must identify and describe all of the components of a logic model and the relationships between these components.
4. In your own opinion, identify and describe three research challenges that can threaten (or call into question) the findings that are generated by a study that evaluates the effectiveness of public and non-profit programs?
The managers ask that you use real-world examples from a single organization to support and illustrate your answers to these questions. Preferably, your examples would come from a nonprofit or public organization of your choice, for example, your current or former place of employment.
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