HLSC 3F20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Summative Assessment, Event Management, Impact Evaluation
21 Jan 2017
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Hlsc 3f20 program planning & evaluation nov-28-2016. The systematic collection of information about the activities, characteristics, and outcomes of programs, services, policies or processes, in order to make judgments about them, improve their effectiveness and/or inform decisions for future development. When program evaluation is addressing: why the program is needed, how it can be designed, how it is being implemented. Then this would be an example of formative evaluation. When program evaluation is addressing: what outcomes the program achieved, how well it achieved those outcomes. It is considered a form of summative evaluation. Generally refers to evaluation of the degree to which expected outcomes (and any other outcomes [positive or negative]) have been achieved: eg. Summative evaluation is typically retrospective: retrospective = it is conducted as the program is ending / has ended to determine what effects it produced. It requires the development of outcome indicators that can be used to measure whether or how well expected outcomes were achieved.
