Section outline

  • Lecture: Evaluation Design and Methods: Choosing a study design, matching questions to methods

    • Identify strength of different types of evaluation designs.
    • Describe analytical issues relevant to program evaluations.
    • Choose and apply methods to answer specific evaluation questions.

    Faculty: Annette Gardner

    Location:  Mission Hall 2107

    • Session Slides:

    • Required Reading:

      • Fink Chapter 3, p. 67-93, Chapter 5, p. 119-142, Chapter 6, p. 147-164

    • Identifying Collecting Evaluation Data: An Overview of Sources and Methods File
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    • Best Practices for Mixed Methods Research File
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    • Expanding the Toolbox Methods to Study and Refine Patient-Centered Medical Home Models. AHRQ File
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    • Assignment:

      Draft the "Design" section of your protocol by addressing the following topics in 1-2 paragraphs. Also update previous assignments to incorporate peer/instructor feedback.

        • Describe the study design you will employ in order to determine if your intervention has had an effect on the outcome variable of interest. Justify why you chose this design over other options.
        • Refine/define process, outcome and impact indicators associated with the intervention/program’s activities, objectives and goals, respectively.  Briefly describe an approach to measuring each.

        Describe in detail the data you plan to collect (type, instruments/approach timeline, etc.).

         

      1. Assignment Due Date: Due ____