CYC 705 Chapter 8+10: Program Evaluation Week 3 Readings
2 Mar 2017
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Chapter 8: making it useful, helping clients and other stakeholders utilize the evaluation. If clients agree with findings and recommendations and intend to use them the evaluation could be seen as useful; sometimes clients gradually come to find the results useful, called the sleeper effect. Most times evaluations are used to provide extra insight into something that has already been hypothesized about the program. An evaluation can be useful to primary clients and stakeholders, secondary stakeholders, pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) opi(cid:374)io(cid:374), the (cid:373)edia, or groups (cid:449)ho did(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a(cid:272)(cid:272)ess a(cid:374)d ha(cid:448)e therefore been negatively affected. Main points: 1) evaluations can be useful to and influence many people and 2) the process of policy change/selection of a new program is long and involves many people. Difficult to bring staff together to review these evaluations in order to use them correctly, due to time and money; negative results can also lead to lack of utilization.
