Discussion
Instructions:
Read Chapter 5 in Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement. Pay close attention to question 7 on page 221.
Read Moore and Tananis's 2009 article, "Measuring Change in a Short-Term Educational Program Using a Retrospective Pretest Design," from American Journal of Evaluation, volume 30, issue 2, pages 189-202.
* Pay attention to the research design and data collection methods in this study.
* Discuss how you would design a qualitative evaluation for improving the quality of mothers' parenting.
*Include three different methods of finding your sample. Specifically discuss how you would collect the data.
*Describe how you would measure whether the quality of parenting actually improves.
Make your post to this discussion step-by-step instructions that someone else could use to repeat the study.