Discussion: Process-Based Program Evaluation
Drawing on your life experience, recall a time when you were involved with a program. Your role in the program could have been as a staff person, volunteer, or client.
Describe the program and an internal process in that program that might have been perceived as problematic. Recommend a potential process evaluation that would monitor or improve the process. Support your recommendation with a logical rationale for how the process evaluation would be linked to the perceived problem. In your initial post, be clear as to your role in the agency and in relation to the specific program. Also, discuss the roles of the primary stakeholders that are involved in the process.
Homework: Program Evaluation
As a program director of an existing program, you would have the responsibility of conducting program evaluations. The Riverbend City scenario, A Day in the Life of a Human Services Leader, provides some insight into how a program director may need to conduct different types of program evaluations to meet different requests for information. This Homework will give you an opportunity to evaluate the three types of program evaluation to determine how the program is most effective in meeting the needs of a specific population.
In addition, a program director would adhere to ethical standards. For this Homework, you will critique the program director's application of two ethical standards from the National Organization of Human Services in relation to these program evaluations.
Instructions
For this Homework, write a 6 to 8 pages paper on program evaluation, based upon the Riverbend City scenario presented in this unit's study. Distinguish the three different types of program evaluation and identify each of their functions, goals, and processes. Use the Riverbend City scenario to highlight specifically how these different program evaluations are being used and critique how multiple stakeholder perspectives are integrated to meet specific population needs, and how ethics are maintained in the process.
Be sure to include the following:
1. Identify three types of program evaluation that were presented in the Riverbend City scenario.
a. Describe the three types of program evaluation and their application in the Riverbend City scenario.
2. Assess the program, utilizing the three types of program evaluations from the Riverbend City scenario.
3. Examine ethical issues that arise in program evaluation, using at least two ethical standards from the National Organization of Human Services.
4. Critique each program evaluation's use of multiple stakeholders' perspectives in determining their effectiveness for meeting the needs of special populations.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the homework, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.