Question

A citizen group is concerned about local youth. Teens are missing school and getting in trouble at increasing rates. Participation in community activities and sports has decreased. The group meets to discuss the issue. Before they consider what can be done, they are discussing their specific goal and how they will measure whether they are successful.

Which step of a citizen action plan would include setting a goal and ways to measure its success?

Conducting background research
Evaluating the public policy alternatives
Determining the solution and criteria
Identifying the issue

Answer 1

Is this A?

Answer 2

we know it isnt going to be D because they already have their issue. now we are not going to determine the solution just yet.
now for A and B, i do not think they are looking at alternatives just yet seeing as they are still planning on how to measure their success. Then for option A doing background research, i can see this being an answer, seeing as they still are trying to figure out their exact goal and how to measure progress. This one is just slightly confusing me a little. @Laylalyssa do you have any ideas?

Answer 3

Yeah, I was getting very confused on this too

Answer 4

At first I thought it was going to be A considering the fact that they are missing school and slacking basically, they should research the cause for this " Conducting background research" BUT thats jus a possibility im not 100% sure abt it

Answer 5

They have already identified the issue so as Maddie said its not D

Answer 6

And it cant be C bc they cant come up with a solution without researching

Answer 7

now we are left with A and B

Answer 8

yeah, after reading it a few times over it appears as if it is going to be option A.
Between A and B, they are not really sure what they are going to do so they'd need to do some searching on how to solve this issue. This would then mean that they can not search for alternatives. How can we find an alternative if we don't even have one solution yet?
does this make sense to you?

Answer 9

I mean it has to be a

Answer 10

exactly

Answer 11

it makes sense to me

Answer 12

ok good job!

Answer 13

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it makes sense to me
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ok good. so yes, you were correct then.

Answer 14

Thank you so much!

Answer 15

np