Course Description
Concepts, principles, and procedures basic to the evaluation of programs in workforce education.
Athena Title
EVAL PRG WORKFRC ED
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in EOCS 7200
Semester Course Offered
Offered summer semester every odd-numbered year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1. State a rationale of the need of continuous and comprehensive evaluation in career-technical and training-development programs. 2. Identify and describe the mandates for evaluation as prescribed in current career-technical legislation. 3. Distinguish among product, process, input, context, and impact evaluation. 4. Formulate criteria, guidelines, and procedures for assessing their performance of program graduates, completers, and leavers. 5. Develop criteria, guidelines, and procedures for assessing the effectiveness of employee performance. 6. Establish criteria, guidelines, and procedures for assessing the effectiveness of the instructional process. 7. Devise criteria, guidelines, and procedures for evaluating the appropriateness and adequacy of program resources. 8. Create criteria, guidelines, and procedures for assessing the impact of a given program. 9. Devise a plan for systematic and continuous evaluation of career-technical and training-development programs. 10. Prepare a report on an evaluation plan for a career-technical or training- development program for submission to the appropriate administrative or managerial personnel.
Topical Outline
The course syllabus is a general plan for the course; deviations announced to the class by the instructor may be necessary. 1.Evaluating and improving career and technical education programs 2.Examining evaluation's big picture 3.Program evaluation overview 4.Formative and summative evaluations 5.The role of evaluation: Improving education 6.Models for planning and evaluation of educational programs 7.How to focus and evaluation 8.Establishing evaluation goals and objectives 9.Identifying and selecting evaluation questions, criteria, and issues 10.Designing an evaluation 11.How to go about constructing an evaluation design 12.Diverse conceptions of educational evaluation 13.Collecting program evaluation data 14.Analyzing and interpreting evaluation information 15.How to communicate evaluation findings 16.Possible communication forms 17.Program evaluation tables