Program Evaluation: A Practitioners Guide for Trainers and Educators (Evaluation in Education and Human Services)

Please glance over the questions that follow and read the answers to those that are of interest. Q: What does this manual do? A: This manual guides the user through designing an evaluation. A: Who can use it? A: Anyone interested or involved in evaluating professional trammg or inservice education programs. The primary users will be staff members who are doing their own program evaluation-maybe for the first time. (Experienced evaluators or other professional educators can find useful guides and worksheets in it.) Q: If I work through this manual, what will I accomplish? A: You will develop one or more evaluation designs, and perhaps you’ll also use the designs to evaluate something to make it better or to document its current value. Q: What is an evaluation design? A: An evaluation design is a conceptual and procedural map for getting important information about training efforts to people who can use it, as shown in the graphic below. Getting Started.- Products.- 1: Outline of Evaluation Questions.- 2: Outline of Evaluation Questions.- 3: Information Collection Plan.- 4: Analysis and Interpretation Plan.- 5: Report Plan.- 6: Management Plan.- 7: Plan to Evaluate the Evaluation.- Appendices.- A: Selecting What (an Object) to Evaluate.- B: An Example of an Evaluation Design.- C: Extra Worksheets.