The main purpose of this assignment is for you to learn how to develop a program evaluation plan. When you are developing programs at work, it is important to first have a plan for evaluating this program. This plan may just be for you and help you organize your ideas about how to conduct the program evaluation or it may be part of your proposal to key stakeholders responsible for approving the new program or making the changes you are recommending to an existing program. If you are proposing to conduct an evaluation of an operational program, describe your evaluation protocol or design and justify its appropriateness for the setting, program, and participants. Consider how contextual issues, such as gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation, could affect your evaluation procedures. This section should also address the following: Brief description of the existing program you are intending to evaluate (this can be the program you developed as part of this course or an existing program you are going to evaluate for your doctoral project) Brief description of the target population who are part of the program that will be evaluated (exclusionary and inclusionary information–who and/or what will be evaluated) Inclusion of the logic model developed as part of your program design in the first half of this quarter. You do not need to create a new logic model, but you can revise the logic model if you need to revise the outcomes and outputs after we talked about constructing goals and objectives that help you better evaluate your program Identify evaluation methodology you will use to collect data–how will you collect the data and what data will you collect Description of measurement tools you will use to evaluate the program (should be consistent with the process and/or outcome goals identified in the logic model) When describing the measurement tool, identify which process and/or outcome goals the measurement tool is addressing Describe how this assessment will provide information about program efficacy (outcome) or efficiency (process) Tasks to be completed–When will you collect the evaluation data, who will fill out the surveys or participate in the interviews Assignment of authority for each task Time-lines for tasks, activities, and key processes How and when adaptations will be considered for your program (recommendations based on evaluation data and report) Responsibility for communication with staff and others, especially when results of formative evaluations will be reported Responsibility for overall documentation Specific Requirements Page length: 10-12 pages, double spaced (doesn’t include title page, references page, or measurement tools which should be listed in the appendices) APA formatting–in-text citations and references page References should be from peer-reviewed journal articles only Due Date Sunday at 11:59pm Pacific Evaluation Plan and Methodology Paper Rubric Evaluation Plan and Methodology Paper Rubric Criteria Ratings Pts Introduction view longer description / 10 pts Logic Model Update view longer description / 10 pts Evaluation Methodology view longer description / 15 pts Measurement Tools view longer description / 15 pts Activities and Timelines view longer description / 15 pts Program Recommendations view longer description / 10 pts Documentation Responsibility view longer description / 10 pts Graduate-level Writing and Scholarship view longer description / 15 pts Total Points: 0 Choose a submission type
