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:      China Basin 5759

    • Prospectus:

    • Session 2 Overview File

    • Session Slides:

    • Session 2 Slides 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

    • Optional Reading:

      Weiss, Carol. Evaluation. Chapter 5 & 7

    • Assignment:

      For students who are using a known or active project as their “case,” finish your “logic model” or program plan by identifying the outcomes associated with your program or project.   Pay particular attention to causality and the evidence you plan to use to justify your conclusions (validity).  You can begin describing each of the logic model components in your evaluation plan narrative, the first section of which will be due next week. 

       

      For students who are not using their own project:

      1. Choose two of eight of Weiss’s criteria for resolving which questions to pursue (see page 77) and describe how each impacted the evaluation of EITHER MARC, IMPAACT or Kiosks (whichever you chose for the homework due this week). 
      2. Finally, also for the case you chose for the first assignment, describe whether you think the evaluation design was the most rigorous and if not, which design you would recommend (from Weiss Chapter 8).

    • Assignment Due Date:  Homework due next week