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Program Planning and Evaluation in Higher Education 2/17. EAD 877. Introduction and Review. Interactive Model - Identifying Program Ideas People Organizations Wider Community. Assessing Needs and Interests. Gap Between Theory and Practice Functional vs Empowerment
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Program Planning and Evaluationin Higher Education 2/17 EAD 877
Introduction and Review • Interactive Model - Identifying Program Ideas • People • Organizations • Wider Community
Assessing Needs and Interests • Gap Between Theory and Practice • Functional vs Empowerment • Informal to Formal Needs Assessment • Strategies
Brainstorm Buzz Groups Philips 66 Nominal Group Delphi Focus Groups Strategies for Assessing Needs
Prioritize and Sorting Program Ideas Nominal Group and Delphi Sork’s - articles Gap Analysis - Yeon Min Speaker - Diversity Focus - John H’s guest Organization as Metaphor - Storyline Interviews Internship Experience Agenda for Tonight’s Class
Discussion of Articles What did you discover in Pearce’s article on “Determining Program Needs” that captures how you might go about determining needs for a particular group? We read that group members may view situations differently. Do you notice this when working as a group on the internship project? If so, how do we compromise?
Sorting and Prioritizing Ideas Case of Cristy - how she sorted and prioritized ideas as statewide director of Cooperative Extension • Setup an ad hoc committee to create a series of workshops on volunteer leadership • addressed a major goal of the statewide strategic plan • major problem in needs assessment report
Analyzing and Sorting Ideas • Using People, Organizational, and Environmental Factors • Developing Criteria • Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches • Alternative Interventions Job Aids, Online, Team Building, Facilities, Job Enrichment, Transfer, Written Materials
Organization as Metaphor • Positive Analogy - the metaphor and the internship situation share elements in common • Negative Analogy - the metaphor and the situation have elements but do not share • Neutral - uncertain about whether features of the situation belong to the positive or negative type of analogy • Why are we together?
The Internship Experience • Ideas • Prioritizing • Next Steps