APA 3118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Program Evaluation, Right To Play, Human Resources
4 Mar 2016
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A program is a coherent whole, organised and structured around objectives, activities and resources, aimed at offering a service to a targeted population: ex. We are trying to talk about how these initiatives integrate evaluation practices into these communities. Often evaluation done at the end of a program. In theory/ideally evaluation should occur all the time and should be a process integrated into all of your operations. When you design a program you ideally should build a data collecting system through out this cycle to keep track of what you are doing (ex. How many participants, meetings, what occurs during activity with participants, make advanced surveys, build in interviews) so you have it there for your overall evaluation at the end. This does not happen however ** most of the time all of the resources and efforts put into implimentation and easy to neglect/drop the evaluation. Needs assment is 1st evaluation you do to inform the design of program.
