Assignment:
(1) Over the last five weeks I have asked students to view the website of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) as part of their course activities. For this mid-term I would like each of you to examine the AEA Topical Interest Groups (TIG) web page found at this link:
https://www.eval.org/Community/Topical-Interest-Groups
Then:
- Identify one TIG in particular that interests you.
- Discuss why you think the work of the TIG is important from the perspective of a forward thinking field of program evaluation.
- What issues would you like to see the TIG you select focus on in 2022?
Why have these concerns become important now?
- Is there a TIG you think is missing from the list that should be added? If so, which one (s) - and why?
(2) Discuss what a target population is, and explain its purpose in a program evaluation Why is this concept important for evaluators to understand?
Then:
- Explain how you would define the current target population for a program of your choice (it can be the one you are working on for the EDP assignment).
- Explain how you would define the current target geographic boundaries for the same program's target population.