Health Sciences 2250A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Summative Assessment, Impact Evaluation, Logic Model
22 Sep 2020
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Health promo chapter 13 class notes evaluation. Impact and outcome evaluations together constitute summative evaluation. Impact evaluation: focuses on intermediary measures such as behaviour change or changes in attitudes, knowledge, and awareness, outcome evaluation, measures the degree to which end points such as diseases or injuries actually decreased. Health promo chapter 13 class notes evaluation: to inform policy decisions. 4 standards of evaluation: utility standards, feasibility standards, propriety standards, accuracy standards. It is difficult to make an association b/w cause and effect. It is difficult to evaluate multi-strategy interventions appropriate evaluation design: evaluators" motives to demonstrate success introduce bias, stakeholders" perceptions of the evaluation"s value may vary too drastically. Intervention strategies are sometimes not delivered as intended or are not culturally specific. Initial data regarding the program should be analyzed promptly to make any necessary adjustments to the program: by creating a summative evaluation early in the planning process, planners can ensure that the results are less biased.
