Overview
For this discussion, you must outline two illustrations from your project. Follow Steps 5 and 6 of the CDC evaluation framework as you create your outlines. Choose two different audience groups. Remember to tailor your response to your chosen audience. Follow standards of utility, feasibility, propriety, and accuracy.
Your discussion outline should include:
- Background, including your audience
- Purpose of evaluation
- Interpretations of findings
- Evaluation results
- Validity and reliability
- Data methods used
- Judgments
- How your data will be analyzed and displayed
- Recommended actions to consider based on your evaluation
This discussion is designed to help you understand the need to summarize your findings. The summary lets you use the evaluation to understand and improve the program studied.
Reading And Resources
Textbook: Principles of Evaluation and Research for Health Care Programs, Chapter 12
This chapter explores data tools used in program evaluation and research. It also describes data classification using categorical and continuous data types. Ways to summarize and organize data are presented, as well as descriptive statistical measures of central tendency, standard deviation, and variance.
As you review this chapter, consider how you can classify and summarize the data you are proposing to collect in your evaluation.
Reading: CDC Program Evaluation Framework opens in new window, Steps 5 and 6 Under ‘Program Evaluation Steps’, review Steps 5 and 6. These steps involve justifying conclusions of an evaluation program, sharing lessons learned, and making recommendations for follow-up. They focus on summarizing and interpreting evaluation findings. As you review these pages, consider how you plan to summarize and interpret the data for your program evaluation to consider both the stakeholder program values and who the audience is.