PAM 5550

Collaborative Modeling Methods for Policy and Program Evaluation

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

This course addresses the evaluation of policies and their programmatic implementation. The course introduces a framework for understanding the policy-program system, provides skills in a variety of methodologies for facilitating the development of well-articulated policy and program models among key stakeholders (e.g., policy makers, funders, government entities, administrators and the general public), and critically assesses the strengths of different approaches.

When Offered Spring.

• Describe the role that evaluation plays in the policy-program context, what is meant in evaluation by program theory (its role in modeling policies and programs), and the variety of approaches for developing effective and rigorous policy and program models.
• Describe the basic steps involved in developing any evaluation, specifically using the Systems Evaluation Protocol.
• Proficiently use specific methodologies (including stakeholder modeling, logic modeling, causal pathway modeling, and group conceptual mapping) and analytic techniques (including multidimensional scaling, hierarchical clustering analysis, and parallel coordinates analysis).
• Proficiently use of the R programming language and the Netway web-based software for accomplishing conceptual modeling for policies and programs.
• Add additional rows if you need to document additional outcomes.

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