Outcome-based Evaluation of Programs and Services, Winter 2009
(Complete Item Description)
- Abstract:
Course provides an overview of the purposes and uses of outcome-based evaluation approaches and methods, and provides an opportunity to conduct a focused outcome evaluation of a user-focused service in a library, a nonprofit organization, an archive, a museum or other service-focused organization.
Objectives are to:* Learn about approaches to outcome-based evaluation
* Identify and use context-centered methods for evaluating public information services
* Examine the role of evaluation in developing more effective information services
* Gain skill in identifying appropriate data collection and analysis methods
* Gain an understanding of recent developments in measurement and evaluation
* Read assigned readings and appropriate focused readings
* Plan and carry out a focused outcome-based evaluation project
- Subject:
- Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
- Post-secondary
- Collection:
- Open.Michigan