Course Description
Nine Steps to Successful Program Evaluation and Analysis |
CreditsCPE Credits: 12 Course AvailabilityClick on Course Offerings to Register |
Course Agenda
MODULE I
Understand Program Evaluation Requirements
- Examine the New GPRA 2010 requirements
- Explore the Administration’s increased emphasis on evaluation
MODULE 2
Focus Your Inquiry: Understand How Evaluation Affects Program Assessment and Contributes to Management
- Learn basic evaluation terms
- Explore the basic steps in an evaluation
MODULE 3
Discover Key Tools Through the Logic Model to Understand Your Program and Plan Your Evaluation
- Learn what a logic model is and its benefits
- Discover how to create a conceptual model of your program
- Explore examples of other logic models
MODULE 4
Continue Focus Your Inquiry Develop Evaluation Questions
- Learn how to identify key evaluation questions from your program logic model
- Create draft evaluation questions for your program
MODULE 5
Develop Indicators to Answer Evaluation Questions
- Learn how to develop appropriate indicators
- Identify key performance measures within your evaluation
MODULE 6
Consider Contextual Issues That Can Influence Assessments of Program Effectiveness
- Learn how the logic model aids in identifying external influences that can help or hinder your program’s success
- Understand why and how external contextual factors must and can be controlled in an evaluation of your program
MODULE 7
Develop Your Evaluation Plan
- Identify best fit indicators to answer your evaluation questions
- Review the common methods appropriate for various types of federal programs
- Answer various types of evaluation questions
- Know when and where to obtain technical help to plan and conduct your evaluation
MODULE 8
Implementation of your Evaluation Plan — Collect Data
- Explore sources of credible data relatively free of bias; avoid technical pitfalls and consider costs
- Learn common data collection methods and their pros and cons
MODULE 9
Interpret the data/ analyze
- Learn common ways to store & manipulate data
- Use common quantitative and qualitative analytic approaches