Requirement:
SWK 7401/7403
Assignment 1: Planning & Engaging Stakeholders
(20 points)
Successful evaluations begin with careful planning and efforts to engage those who will be part of the evaluation activities. This assignment focuses on using the knowledge and skills you have acquired in this course and other courses to talk about evaluation in your field practicum site and to engage your supervisors (field & task instructors, agency director, coworkers, clients, etc.) in your project.
Agency Information:
1. Provide a brief description of your field practicum site (name, location, Agency Director, services provided and clientele served).
2. Provide the name(s) and contact information of your field instructor, task instructor (if you have one), and anyone else who regularly supervises your work in field.
Engagement Planning
3. Describe your plan to engage your agency in a discussion of your evaluation project. Indicate who you will talk to, how you will present your evaluation project, and what strategies will you use to engage their support and participation in your evaluation. Reflect on what personal strengths you bring to this process.
Post-discussion Assessment
4. After implementing your engagement plan, summarize the conversations you had. Briefly describe possible evaluation options that emerged from your meetings, any questions that were raised, and reflect on your engagement skills from these conversations. Summarize the evaluation needs of your field
Evaluation is a process that is used to look at the project, policy or program critically. It includes the collection and analyzing information that is related to the program or policy and that of its outcome. The Main purpose is to improve the policy or the program effectiveness. This will also help to identify any of the weak areas and changes that need to be made in the policy.
Before the assessment it is advisable to hold an informal briefing meeting to discuss the format of the assessment and to write up a plan. At the meeting the manager can provide the employee with the necessary paperwork for the assessment and provide them with the opportunity to collect information required to support their assessment.
Missing the following information. “Include a specific manner of project evaluation. How will you determine your level of success? What will you measure? Whose evaluative input will you seek”?
Please note that this Assessment has 6 pages and is made up of 3 Sections.
To whom would you report the evaluations results, and how will your report(s) be tailored to various stakeholders? That is, what will different stakeholders need to know, and how is that information best consumed?
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The link below will direct you to my SCED 324 portfolio. It includes attachments that serve as evidence of my teaching ability. The attached WebQuery is an online lesson that engages students in a four-day inquiry-based investigation on gravitational potential energy. A second attachment, the Ellensburg High School field trip guide, demonstrates my ability to facilitate and carry out a planned investigation. An energy probe is attached as well, and it serves as evidence of my intention and ability to pre-assess student knowledge. This will serve to directly address misconceptions in following lessons and target what students do not already know. Another attachment is a 5E lesson plan that demonstrates my ability to provide a safe
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Please note that this Assessment has 6 pages and is made up of 3 Sections.
The first thing that you need to do is to sort out what content you are going to put under each of the Assignment criteria headings 1.1,1.2 and 1.3 and
Evaluation is an assessment of something or making an observation of the outcome whether good or bad. An example of evaluating is after the Year 8 disco, was the year 8 pupil’s filing out an evaluation form on how they thought the event went. There are many different ways to evaluate such as minutes of meeting, questionnaires, post-event papers and circulation list.
| Chapter 1, page 4-6; Lecture Week 1. Projects have a specific time frame, and are temporary; they have a clear beginning and end.
For this assignment, I reviewed and scored the application. The application included the budget, project narrative, description of staff, and scope of work. An evaluation tool to score the application included a variety of categories such as objectives, activities, timelines, evaluation methods, and overall scope of work. I provided notes and comments on the evaluation. Later, I compared my scores with my supervisor. We discussed the application's overall strengths, opportunities for growth, and overall feasibility. I also heard their opinion about theabout the elements that were included in a strong grant proposals. These scores will determine recipients of
Please note that this Assessment has 6 pages and is made up of 3 Sections.