A local community hires a team of researchers to implement and evaluate a drug prevention program. After determining the needs of the community, the researchers suggest four successful drug prevention programs. The community selects one to implement. In their evaluations, the researchers critique the community for only selecting one drug prevention program rather than all four. The researchers further demonstrate that rates of drug use will only be affected if the community makes a more concerted effort in preventing use. The researchers' final conclusion is that the community's efforts to reduce drug use were not successful. These researchers conducted an evaluation of ______.
A) need
B) process
C) impact
D) efficiency

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The researchers evaluated the impact of the drug prevention program by examining the effect on rates of drug use in the community, concluding that the efforts were not successful in reducing drug use. This type of evaluation focuses on the outcomes or results of a program, which aligns with an impact evaluation.

A Local Community Hires a Team of Researchers to Implement