Road test evaluation research for your organization. You won’t be disappointed. Evaluation research can give you and your organization a systematic assessment of the value of resources and time you commit to a project, product, or specific goal. Evaluation research can determine whether or not a process has achieved a goal or yielded the desired results.
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What you will learn
- Unit 1
Setting the Stage for Evaluations
What is evaluation?
Why do we do it?
Needs assessment: first step in evaluation planning
Share your scenario for something you might evaluate in your professional setting - Unit 2
Practical Issues in Planning and Implementing Evaluations – Part 1
Individual readiness issues
Organizational readiness issues
Self-assessing your own readiness as an evaluator
Identify key stakeholders: users of evaluation results
Students share readiness issues (individual, organizational, and self) in related discussion forum - Unit 3
Practical Issues in Planning and Implementing Evaluations – Part 2
What is a situation analysis and how to conduct one
Focusing your evaluation goals and how you will measure them
Drafting your plan
“Dress rehearsal” meeting with key stakeholders to set their expectations
Students share drafts of their individual situation analysis - Unit 4
Practical Issues in Planning and Implementing Evaluations – Part 3
Implementing the plan
Managing time and cost factors
Keeping lines of communication open with key stakeholders during evaluation
How to prepare the final evaluation report
Post-evaluation follow-ups with key stakeholders (what have they learned? Are they using the results?)
Students share drafts of their individual evaluation plans
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