Additional Course Information
Agenda
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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