Education Policy and Program Evaluation

3 credits · Peabody College - Professional

Education Policy and Program Evaluation provides an orientation and overview of the field of educational evaluation and prepares participants to conduct professional evaluations. Evaluation is a fundamental activity in everyday life but professional evaluation requires a set of skills and dispositions such as the ability to determine the most salient, answerable evaluation questions, plan and design evaluation studies, interact with stakeholders including program participants and public officials, collect and analyze data, report findings, and disseminate the findings to stakeholders and the public. Prerequisites: LPO 7860 and 7870. [3]