The Importance of Knowing What's Important

Writing

Responses

Please create one response for #wk5-whose-values on Slack1.

Posting

After going through this week’s readings, address the following items in a single post on the channel #wk6-disagreement

  • How did or will you determine the important criterion or criteria from the stakeholder/sponsor interview?

  • Recall that you as the evaluator are the expert but a sponsor is often the person who hires and pays you. Given this, what would you do in a situation where you and the sponsor fundamentally disagree with what should be evaluated?

Doing

Program Evaluation Standards

Take a look at a list of standards that were created by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. You can and should use this list as a barometer to assess if your evaluation would be considered at minimum satisfactory.

Evaluation Reports

If you’re interested in seeing some ideas on how construct evaluation reports, please take a look at the links below.

Example ReportsCDC Guide for Creating a Report
Example ReportsCDC Guide for Creating a Report

Deliverables

  • Review the requirements for your second deliverable - a Needs Assessment - due by the end of Week 7.

  • Preview your third deliverable - an Evaluation Proposal - due by the end of Week 8.