Proposa Northern Cambria's Evaluating Evaluation Practices

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.

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.

In addition, I also plan to get the opinions my colleagues regarding the positives and negatives of the program with a survey at the end of my research. I hope to use the results of this survey to look at and determine the skills and resources that are thought to be essential to the success of the programs implementation.

With this being stated; a program evaluation should be performed to see what changes need to be made to help their mission. It is clear that the services that they are providing are not as effective any more.

Program planning sets the stage for realistic program goals and organizes a plan of action.   Program evaluation provides the program staff with the opportunity to make adjustments and improvements to the program.   Program evaluation provides the important input necessary for ongoing progress and planning.

The second question Identify specific examples of how program planning and evaluation interrelate in your chosen scenario in Appendix B. in my opinion program planning and

I will face many different challenges as a special education teacher including: data collection, making accommodations, and parental support. Data collection is huge in special education. I will need to be able to validate everything I do and make sure it coincides with everything in the student’s IEP (individualized education plan).

Fifth, incorporate an evaluation team to assess the outcome of the problem to assure; the needs of the program are met. Always stay focus.

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.

The special education teacher interviewed, showed me that she uses the teaching/individual goals related to each student’s IEP. The teacher always tries to excel and reach the needs to relate

Formal program evaluation began in the nineteen sixty’s. There were many different methods used before the final decision. The Charity Model was used and decisions were based on sincerity and enthusiasm of participants in the program. If the participants were excited the program would be considered a success and the funding would continue. The Pork Barrel method was also used which relied on power and leverage of constituency. With

The program evaluator is blind to what the program is supposed to be and therefore with data paints a picture of the reality occurring in the program. All kinds of methods of data gathering can be employed in this model of evaluation in order to get a complete view of the program and how it is or is not meeting the needs of the target population. Often because the evaluation needs to be bias free, evaluators are not well versed in the subject matter or industry when the goal-free model of evaluation is chosen. In the Goal-Free method it is advised to use more than one evaluator so that the evaluation does not rest upon only one evaluator (Boulmetis, J., & Dutwin, P., 2005,

Another model of evaluation based on the personal observations makes the use of intensive personal observations and conversations with the stakeholders would be the proponents of “qualitative or naturalistic” argues that only a deep and thorough understanding of a program will permit the most helpful with the evaluation. Offering the “expert opinion model” where the evaluator must be the data-gathering instrument; yet, a greater emphasis is placed on the understanding the experiences to such issues.

Following revamping the scope of the evaluation a criterion in which the data will be compared would be established. The established criterion would be presented in the evaluation in length. The current evaluation seems to arbitrarily make a judgment of the worth of the program, and there were no references to the criterion process used.

The function and purpose of audits and evaluation programs are to ensure that periodic, formal review occurs such that program implementation and budget can be informed. The audit and evaluation process serves to provide information to the teams responsible for execution of those programs regarding their results and work quality. It is essential that the audit and evaluation program procedures result in new information and do not duplicate previous efforts. Essentially, the audit and evaluation programs should answer questions that have not been fully answered by other analysis or that are essential to a long-term view of performance and that facilitate the ability to gain an objective view and independent perspective with respect to the results and quality of the programmatic efforts ("Foundations for Success," 2012).