HE 6012

Introduction to Evaluation

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2014-2015 Catalog.

This graduate-level survey course offers an introduction to planning evaluations in the public and nonprofit sectors, as well as an awareness of some of the larger contexts within which evaluation work is situated. Students will master techniques for planning and designing user-driven, mixed methods evaluations of programs and projects. Emphasizes the systematic use of logic modeling techniques, and understanding the quality tradeoffs inherent in choices about evaluation questions and methods. Work is focused on a real-world evaluation project done in small teams. Projects include local, state, national and international options.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prior completion of introductory statistics and basic qualitative methods is recommended, but not required.

When Offered Fall.

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