HE 6012

Introduction to Evaluation

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This graduate-level survey course offers an introduction to planning evaluations in the public and nonprofit sectors, as well as an awareness of some of the larger contexts within which evaluation work is situated. Students will master techniques for planning and designing user-driven, mixed methods evaluations of programs and projects. Emphasizes the systematic use of logic modeling techniques, and understanding the quality tradeoffs inherent in choices about evaluation questions and methods. Work is focused on a real-world evaluation project done in small teams. Projects include local, state, national and international options.

When Offered Fall.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prior completion of introductory statistics and basic qualitative methods is recommended, but not required.

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