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In OBPE, assumptions are information about an audience or program partners or other aspects of a program that will affect the choice of the best solution to address audience needs.  Some assumptions c [..]

In OBPE, the audience for a program includes everyone who has the identified need and who might benefit from the identified solution. It is sometimes called the “target” audience, but is usually diffe [..]

Audience considerations are characteristics of audience members which will affect how a program is designed. (Characteristics which are the deficits or gaps that a program is designed to remedy are ca [..]

, Deficit, Need, Status, Want.

In general terms, the word “experiment” can simply designate a new idea about how to do something.  In formal social science or medical research, “experiment” has a very specific meaning, in which a t [..]