Overcoming Program Evaluation Challenges
Overcoming Program Evaluation ChallengesRobin ShepardAssistant Professor of Life Sciences Communication andExtension Water Quality Coordinator, University of Wisconsin-MadisonEvaluation of education is commonly approached byexamining the differences that our efforts have made inthose who take part in our programs. But this is anoverly simplistic view of both the process of evaluationand its purpose. Evaluation involves a systematiccollection of information about the activities,characteristics, and outcomes of programs, personnel,and products for use by specific people to reduceuncertainties, improve effectiveness, and make decisionswith regard to what those programs or products are doingand affecting (Patton, 1982). It is the process ofcomparing evidence with criteria in order to assess thevalue of a Program , activity, or OF EDUCATIONAL Program EVALUATIONEvaluating educational programming can target a numberof important purposes, including: assisting in planning and setting Program objectives; assessing Program procedures and tasks as theyoccur; assessing specific Program short-term effects; and assessing long-range of these purposes actually relies on different typesof Evaluation , especially in the tec
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