Methods in Program Evaluation

Increasing demand for transparency and accountability, particularly with respect to public and private grant funded programs, has heightened the need for skilled evaluators. To this end, students in this course will become familiar with various forms of evaluation and acquire the technical skills necessary for their development, design and implementation through lectures and discussion, group exercises, guest presentations, real-world examples, and readings. Specifically, students will discover evidence-based methods for identifying stakeholders, crafting evaluation questions, designing instruments, sampling and data collecting for good response rates, analysis and synthesis of information for report-writing, and dissemination of evaluation findings to stakeholders