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.
Get introduced to the characteristics of evaluation research and how it can be directly applied to assess the impact or effectiveness of a program, policy, or procedure you want to road test in a professional setting.
CEUs: 1.6
Length (in hours): 16
Price in USD $195
Price in CAD $265
Agenda
Unit 1
Setting the Stage for Evaluations
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What is evaluation?
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Why do we do it?
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Needs assessment: first step in evaluation planning
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Share your scenario for something you might evaluate in your professional setting
Unit 2
Practical Issues in Planning and Implementing Evaluations – Part 1
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Individual readiness issues
- Organizational readiness issues
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Self-assessing your own readiness as an evaluator
- Identify key stakeholders: users of evaluation results
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Students share readiness issues (individual, organizational, and self) in related discussion forum
Unit 3
Practical Issues in Planning and Implementing Evaluations – Part 2
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What is a ‘situation analysis’ and how to conduct one
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Focusing your evaluation goals and how you will measure them
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Drafting your plan
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“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
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Implementing the plan
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Managing time and cost factors
- Keeping lines of communication open with key stakeholders during evaluation
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How to prepare the final evaluation report
- Post-evaluation follow-ups with key stakeholders (what have they learned? Are they using the results?)
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Students share drafts of their individual evaluation plans