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Objectives for Session Twelve. Evaluate and Discuss Evaluation Designs in Two Assigned Articles Formative Designs Due on Wednesday. Evaluating Evaluation Designs. Summative evaluation, formative evaluation, or a summative-formative hybrid? What is the program theory?
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Objectives for Session Twelve • Evaluate and Discuss Evaluation Designs in Two Assigned Articles • Formative Designs Due on Wednesday
Evaluating Evaluation Designs • Summative evaluation, formative evaluation, or a summative-formative hybrid? • What is the program theory? • What is the implementation theory? • How did the authors collect data? How did they select cases or observations?
Evaluating Evaluation Designs • How would you evaluate the strength of the research design? Assess the validity and reliability of the data. • Where could the design be improved? What would a more “ideal” study look like? • When reading the article, what are the three most important insights generated about how administrators might improve program implementation?
Readings for Next Time • Formative Design Proposal Due on Wednesday at the beginning of class • 10 to 12 pages double-spaced, 12 point font, 1 inch margins • Cover sheet!!! • Weiss, Chapter 14 • Patton, “Power, Politics, and Ethics” • Brown, J. Lynne and Nancy Ellen Kiernan. “Assessing the Subsequent Effect of A Formative Evaluation on a Program,” Evaluation and Program Planning, 24(2001): 129-43. • Review Weiss, Chapters 2 and 3