XEDU-500 Program Planning, Analysis and Evaluation

In this foundational course, participants will receive an overview of models and approaches used to conduct program and policy evaluations in the educational setting. Students will cover all phases of an evaluation including the problem statement, evaluation design, evaluation purpose statements, variable measurement, analysis of results, and identifying the relationship between those results and future program performance.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Understand the relationship between assessment, analysis, and evaluation
• Explain components of evaluation models
• Identify strong and weak examples of evaluation problem and purpose statements and research questions.
• Provide a broad overview of evaluation theory and techniques
• Prepare evaluation results and restate the relationship among policy, planning, and evaluation