Section outline

  • Lecture: Evaluation Planning and Design, Logic Models, part 2

    1. Describe summative and formative evaluations; 2. Explore the strength of different types of evaluation designs; 3. Attribute outcomes to the program/understand the role of causality in rigorous evaluation; 4. Plan an evaluation/developing good evaluation questions.

    Faculty:  Janet Myers

    Location:  Mission Hall 1108

    • Session Slides:

    • Session 2 Overview 2015 File

    • Required Reading:

      Weiss, Carol. Evaluation. Chapter 4, 6 & 8
      Daponte, Osborne. Evaluation Essentials. Chapter 4 & 5
      Bradford Hill criteria for causality

    • CDC-Evaluation-Workbook-508(3) File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, 2004 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Kellogg Logic Model Development Guide File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Osborne Duponte Chapters 4 5 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Lucas RM, McMichael AJ. (2005). Association or causation: evaluating links between “environment and disease.” Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 83(10):792-795 File
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    • Optional Reading:

      Weiss, Carol. Evaluation. Chapter 5 & 7

    • Assignment:

      Decide whether you will be doing an evaluation plan from your own experience or doing the “problem sets” I will assign in class.

      Plan people:  If you are doing an evaluation plan, submit a title and a brief description of the program you will be considering for the evaluation plan. Identify the goal/s, objective/s and activities associated with the program.  If you want to use a logic model to do this, that’s fine. 

      Problem Set People:  Choose one of the “cases” (MARC, IMPAACT or Kiosks) above and in about two pages, identify the program logic or theory, goals, assumptions, target population, inputs and resources, activities and outputs of the program or project.  Also describe whether you think the evaluation design was the most rigorous and if not, which design you would recommend, referencing Weiss Chapter 8) and why.

    • Assignment Due Date:  Homework due October 1, 2015