Course Description:
This course is designed to develop your understanding
and experience in systematically evaluating outcomes related to program
goals and standards. Topics will include: purposes and uses of evaluation,
role of concepts and constructs, planning, standard setting, selecting
methods, developing measures, qualitative methods, analyzing and interpreting
outcomes, reporting findings, ethics and politics, and utilization. Course
activities include reading and responding to information sources both
verbally and in writing, designing and developing evaluation ideas and
materials, critically analyzing examples, and actively engaging the ideas
of authors, classmates, the professor, and others.
Additional Information:
EIPT 6073 is offered each spring semester. Though not
a technical prerequisite, it is recommended that the student have some
background in communication and organizations, and in educational assessment
and evaluation to be most successful in this course.
International Professional Standards
If you are serious about a that includes Program
Evaluation, you should be familiar with a set of professional standards.
Refer to the following sites for resources.
Website
of the American Evaluation Association (AEA)
Online
summary of the International Program Evaluation Standards
Also click on "Links" in the navigation bar
on the left for additional resources.
