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Date(s) - 31/07/2025
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Valeo Western Michigan University
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If you have been working in a program evaluation space for any time, you’ve probably heard about evaluation approaches, models, theories, or frameworks. Have you ever wondered if these things are the same or different? Or if it’s OK to mix-and-match ideas from different approaches? Have you ever questioned the relevance of evaluation theory to your work as a practitioner?
In this course, you’ll take a deep dive into the following evaluation approaches, with a focus on their salient features and implications for practice:
Collaborative Approaches to Evaluation
Context, Process, Input, Product Evaluation
Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation
Goal-Free Evaluation
Program Theory-Driven Evaluation
Utilization-Focused Evaluation
You will engage in a practice case in which you are a member of an evaluation team that is considering how to use ideas from these approaches in an upcoming evaluation. After learning about each approach and its relevance to the example evaluation, you will practice applying and integrating the ideas from the approaches to a different evaluation. The course focuses on the key features of each approach, without reviewing general advice about evaluation that most scholarly writing about approaches typically includes.
After completing this course, you will be ready to draw on ideas from multiple approaches to enrich your practice.
This course is designed for individuals with some evaluation experience who want to strengthen their knowledge of evaluation theory and expand their options for designing and conducting evaluations.
Length: 3 hours
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