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This discussion will help you prepare the data analysis section of your research design for your Program Evaluation Plan project. Your peers and instructor will provide feedback that will help you refine your plan. This is an extended post and should comprise 300-350 words.

As part of your Program Evaluation Plan project, you might propose collecting surveys, scored assessments, transcribed conversations, observational notes, clinical records, or other forms of data. You will analyze this data with the goal of answering the basic questions of the evaluation and uncovering other useful information. For this discussion, first post details about the following aspects of your project:

Population.- Adolescents
Clinical areas of concern.-Addiction
Clinical intervention and program services.
Questions to be answered by evaluation.

Then, describe step-by-step data analysis procedures you will use to answer the following:

What are the data analysis procedures (using both descriptive and inferential statistics) for the quantitative component of the program evaluation plan?
What are the data analysis procedures for the qualitative components of the program evaluation plan?

Use published scholarly articles to find examples of data analyses that pose evaluation questions similar to yours. Discuss how these studies used and justified similar data analysis procedures that could also be used in your evaluation plan.

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The solution provides information, assistance and advise in tackling the task (see above) on the topic of doing a program evaluation with a focus on the analysis of data. This solution is related to another as part of a series on SMART Recovery for Teens and Youth. Resources are listed for further exploration of the topic.

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Program Evaluation: Data Analysis

This project focuses on the evaluation of the SMART Recovery Program particularly adapted for Teens and Youth. As with all SMART programs, its aim is to help individuals suffering from some form of addiction and addictive behaviours. With SMART representing the following letters in an acronym (Self Management And Recovery Training), it can be expected as a program that develops coping and self-management skills in individuals so that they are imbued with skills and facilities that will allow them to get over addiction and manage themselves so that they do not fall back into thinking and behavioural patterns that lead them to abuse substances, engage in problematic behaviour and other addiction issues in a bid to combat recidivism. SMART (2015) for the youth is explained by the organization that runs it as follows - "SMART Recovery is a self-help program that offers a place where teens can get together to ...

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