Program Evaluation

3 credits · School of Medicine

This course is a masters-level introduction to evaluation research. It is designed for people who expect to work as agency directors, educational administrators, program directors, in-house evaluators, or evaluation consultants and who want to work with community agencies to evaluate the organization's programs. At the end, students will be able both to conduct local evaluations and to communicate and work with professional evaluators. The course covers multiple approaches and types of evaluations and how they are embedded in social and political contexts. It also includes practical techniques for program developers and administrators, such as needs assessment, performance evaluation, goal attainment scaling, cost-benefit analysis, qualitative approaches, and approaches to evaluation that take time and funding constraints into account. [3]