Program and Policy Evaluation

Catalog description

This course focuses on techniques and methods relevant to public administration, particularly those used in program and policy evaluation. Topics covered may include any or all of the following: performance measures, cost benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness and efficiency analysis, surveys and working with survey data, case study, experimental design, present value analysis, and indexes. The goal is to equip students with the skills required to develop and conduct program evaluation research projects, and to be intelligent consumers of program and policy analysis conducted by others.