A nurse is completing a summative evaluation of a program designed to decrease obesity in school-age children.Which of the following is the most important question for the nurse to ask?
A) Are school-age children satisfied with the program?
B) Can parents and guardians support the program requirements?
C) Has obesity in school-age children decreased?
D) What is the program cost compared with the program benefit?

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Summative evaluation looks at the end result of the program.The major benefit of program evaluation is that it shows whether the program is meeting its purpose.It should answer the following questions: Are the needs for which the program was designed being met? Are the problems it was designed to solve being solved? If the program does not achieve the purpose for which it is designed,important concerns of satisfaction and cost are irrelevant.So if the program purpose is to decrease obesity,the outcome of importance is a decrease in obesity.Formative evaluation serves the purspoe of assessing if objectives are met or if planned activities are completed.This type of evaluation begins with an assessment of the need for a program and is ongoing as the program is implemented.The considerations of satisfaction,support,and cost are all issues that could be addressed in planning and ongoing assessment of the program.

A Nurse Is Completing a Summative Evaluation of a Program