During lecture this week we focused on Evaluation. Program Evaluation is a very crucial part of any type of intervention or study. We are going to touch upon evaluations in our final project so it was helpful to have the lecturing covering this topic to assist us. However as we learn when studying evaluations, you need to know your evaluation tool prior to implementing your intervention therefore it may have been helpful to learn about evaluation tools a bit earlier but some or most of us may have already taken courses that touch on this topic in more depth so it should be okay. Years ago I worked as the Project Coordinator for The Community Service Grant Program and we created a program for at-risk (or more politically 'high-potential') youth. In the grant a significant amount of money went to an outside contractor responsible for the evaluation part. I didn't really realize what went into creating the tools to evaluate and the extensive work that needs to be done to get accurate results. I think I would have payed more attention had I learned about evaluation before experiencing first had. I also think if process evaluation is done incorrectly it can really hurt a program and funding can be cut so it is so key the evaluation represents the actual results of the intervention or program.
As for presentations... wow lots done and some more to go and then it's over, yippee!
Remember everyone... DROP THE BULL!!!
