| Course ID: | WFED 7200E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Evaluation of Programs in Workforce Education |
Course
Description: | Concepts, principles, and procedures basic to the evaluation of
programs in workforce education. |
| Oasis Title: | EVAL PRG WORKFRC ED |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in WFED 7200 |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| 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 |