PSCI 3402 Study Guide - Summative Assessment, Impact Evaluation, Program Evaluation
14 Jul 2014
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Program evaluation is the systematic collection of information about the activities, characteristics, and outcomes of programs to make judgements about the program, improve program effectiveness, and/or inform decisions about future programming michael patton (1997) 1 program improvement -formative evaluation: evaluation designed to support development and improvement of a program as it is being implemented. 2 accountability -summative evaluation: an evaluation undertaken at the end of a program to gauge its success. 3 generation of knowledge - may be directly relevant to the program, or may be used to highlight more general social issues. Attribution problem: the difficulty in determining what the specific contribution of a policy or program intervention has been to outcomes, in contrast to all other possible factors that might have affected those outcomes . And unpopularity: who wants to be told their work was a failure, and who wants to deal with the implications this may have *(example f-35)
