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Session 9

Writing a Program Evaluation Proposal: FGCU Colloquium

Taylor-Powell, Steele, Sara & Doughlah, M. (1996) Planning a Program Evaluation; Program Evaluation Proposal (Example); Guadalupe Corral (2014) Writing an Evaluation Plan; Arnold Committee Report 1996; FGCU's University Colloquium Course (IDS 3920) found on the course website; Colloquium Course Syllabus Formats used by selected instructors in 2004, 2008 and 2012, (3) the W.W. Kelogg Foundation Framework and (4) the Evaluation Criteria found in FGCU's first Quality Improvement Plan (QEP).

Topics:

  • Outlining an evaluation plan proposal (see Planing a Program Evaluation by Taylor-Powell, Steele & Douglah (1996).
  • Kellogg Foundation Framework for Program Evaluation

  • Useful Evaluation Paradigms to include (a) Interpretivism/Constructivism, (b) Feminist Methods, (c) Participatory Evaluation and (d) Theory-Based Evaluation,
  • Understanding QEP evaluation methods, goals and program objectives

Homework:

  1. Review the findings of the Arnold Committee at the founding of FGCU. Then review the Colloquium QEP document as well as the sample University Colloquium syllabus. Then go to Corral's logical model table she presents in this session's readings. Develop a comparable table illustrating how you might employ the logic model if you were called upon to present a proposal to the university for conducting a new program evaluation of the University Colloquium.
  2. Thoroughly explore the web pages regarding the FGCU Colloquium to include how it is organized, governed and administered. Then look at examples of course syllabus offerings from disparate instructors in 2004, 2008 and 2012 and comment upon consistencies and inconsistencies found in these course offerings.
  3. Study the QEP document thoroughly then focus upon the methods, goals and objectives section. Given what you have seen in the three course syllabus formats provided, how would you judge that the course has progressed in utilizing teaching methods that address course goals and objectives?
  4. In your opinion is their sufficient material available to make a determination of how effectively the QEP evaluative model has been applied in these course sections?
  5. Does the QEP evaluation process adequately measure what students learn in this course? If so how? If not, what is missing?
  6. Consider the program evaluation model utilized by the Kellogg Foundation. How might that model be fruitfully applied to the FGCU University Colloquium?
  7. Do any of the "useful paradigms" discussed in the Kellogg framework appear particularly applicable to the Colloquim evaluation? If so, please explain.
  8. Finally provide a brief logic model illustration of a proposal to evaluate the University Colloquium to include identifying who you imagine the stakeholders in this program to be.

NOTE: Submit your assigned homework in World format as an attachment to Canvas email and submit this homework - complete with APA citations and references - to the instructor by no later than 5 pm on the last day of Session 9 (as designated on the course schedule page that is linked above).

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