Evaluation Assignment
Please Keep Program Planning & Evaluation Labeled Accordingly 2. Program Planning – In the city of Macomb, county of Macomb, state of Michigan identify and interview a program planner about a specific public health program plan and then critically assess their approach to the work. PART I. As part of the interview, ask the programmer the following guiding questions. Please DO NOT name the planner or their location. You only need to answer the questions based on your interview. Assignment Length for Part 1. Two pages double-spaced. Questions if you are interviewing a program planner: 1. Describe briefly the goal of the health program that you developed? 2. Describe what prompted your agency to develop this specific intervention? 3. What are the objectives for the intervention? 4. How was your program funded? Explain your role in obtaining funding? 5. Explain the program theories that guided you in planning the intervention/Project? If not, how did you choose your activities? 6. Is this a time-limited program plan? If so, do you have plans to promote sustainability? 7. Who are your stakeholders and how do you collaborated with them? 8. How did you monitor the implementation of this project? 9. What are the successes and/or challenges of this program plan? 10. Have you been evaluating the program plan? If so, please briefly summarize. PART II Critical Assessment. To assess the interview, draw on the course materials to apply critical thinking related to the program planning process. This section should be 1 to 2 double spaced pages. Wed like you to focus on: 1. What elements of the planning process did the planner include? 2. What elements were missing? From your perspective, did this seem to affect the quality of the program? 3. Describe the strengths of the current program? The challenges they are facing? 4. Make suggestions to improve this program and make three to four key recommendations. Support each recommendation with a few sentences and citations. Evaluation – In the city of Macomb, county of Macomb, state of Michigan, identify and interview a program evaluator about a specific public health program plan and then critically assess their approach to the work. It can be the same person interviewed for assignment 1. PART I. As part of the interview, ask the program evaluator the following guiding questions. Please DO NOT name the evaluator or their location. You only need to answer the questions based on your interview. Assignment Length for Part 1. Two pages double-spaced. Take notes and ask for supporting program evaluation documents Questions if you are interviewing an evaluator: 1. Describe the goal of the health program that was developed. 2. What are the objectives, if they exist, for the program? 3. At what point in the development and/or implementation of the program did you begin evaluating this intervention? 4. How and why were you asked to evaluate this program? 5. How did you work with the program planner to develop and implement the evaluation plan? 6. Describe how you developed the evaluation plan? What were the key components of it? 7. What are the key methods and short and long term outcomes you are measuring? 8. What have been the successes and/or challenges in evaluating this program? 9. Have you involved key stakeholders in the evaluation (eg., program planner, funders, other stakeholders)? If so, who? PART II Critical Assessment. To assess the interview, draw on the course materials to apply critical thinking related to the program evaluation process. Assignment length for Part 2. This section should be 1 to 2 double spaced pages. Wed like you to focus on: Critical Assessment Questions for the Evaluation Interview 1. If you were a consultant, how would you describe the strengths of the current evaluation? 2. What are the challenges they are facing in carrying out the evaluation? How have these challenges affected the scope and effectiveness of the evaluation? 3. Make suggestions to improve the overall evaluation of the program and make three to four key recommendations. Support each recommendation with a few sentences and citations.
