PA555, Program Evaluation - Portland State University



PA555, Program Evaluation

First Class: Outline of Introduction to the Field

• What is evaluation?

o Examples of program evaluations

o In-class exercise: evaluation designs

• What is the purpose of evaluation?

o Impact/effectiveness/summative vs. process/formative

• Why isn’t it easy?

• A field of controversy

• Discovering program failure

o Implementation failure vs. design failure

• Evaluation failure

• History of program evaluation

• Evaluation terminology

You should keep track of, as they come up:

1. Evaluation terms / concepts

2. Evaluation issues

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