Evaluation Research

3 credits · Graduate School

This course is a doctoral-level introduction to evaluation research. It is designed for people who expect to work as university faculty members or principal investigators in research organizations with a commitment to using research to understand the contribution of social programs and social change efforts to ending social problems. The first half of the course will be devoted to understanding multiple approaches and types of evaluations and how they are embedded in social and political contexts. The second half will introduce design and analytic techniques particularly useful in large scale social experiments, and some of their limitations. [3]