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Program Evaluation

Program Evaluation. Amanda Valbuena Evaluator, CFEP. What is Program Evaluation?. What words come to mind when you think of Program Evaluation? What does Evaluation mean?. Defining Program Evaluation.

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Program Evaluation

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  1. Program Evaluation Amanda Valbuena Evaluator, CFEP

  2. What is Program Evaluation? • What words come to mind when you think of Program Evaluation? • What does Evaluation mean?

  3. Defining Program Evaluation • Evaluation is the systematic collection of information about the activities, characteristics and outcomes of the program to make judgments about the program, to improve program effectiveness and/or inform decisions about future programming. • Michael Quinn Patton

  4. Steps of Program Evaluation • Step 1: State the goals and outcomes for your Program. • Remember that programs are different, and may be trying to achieve different things • What are the goals of your program? • What changes are you wanting to see in the students you work with?

  5. Steps of Program Evaluation • Step 2: Determine which activities that you offer are intended to make these changes. • Example: • Which activities do you offer to students? Tutoring Increased Grades

  6. Steps of Program Evaluation • Step 3: Collect data from participants to see if these changes happened. • Write survey questions that: • Answer what you want to know! • Are as simple as possible! • That participants will be able to answer! • Example: What is your current GPA?

  7. Remember • To improve a program, the findings from an evaluation must be useful! • How? • The questions must be relevant to the program! • The questions must address the changes you are wanting to see in your participants!

  8. Lets Try this! • What changes do you want to see in participants? • What activities do you provide to make those changes happen? • What do we want to know in order to see if these changes happened?

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