Program Evaluation

Catalog description

Section information text: This course introduces students to evaluation research. Topics include the history and theory underlying program evaluation; approaches to evaluation; procedures and techniques for entering a group for which one would provide evaluation services; selecting appropriate quantitative and/or qualitative models and techniques used to perform the evaluation; strategies for getting gatekeepers to be invested in the development of the research and in the outcomes; demonstration of program effectives; and dissemination of results to stakeholders. (Prerequisite(s): PSYC 6305 and PSYC 6310.)