Five P's
The humans involved in the program being evaluated.
What are personnel?
Involves getting potential baseline information about available inputs; what needs and interests people have; current involvement, attitudes and reactions
What is assessment?
The evaluator must always keep in mind the purpose of the project in order to stay focused and on track.
What is "Why"?
The knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that contribute to individual and organizational performance
What are competencies?
Identifies the area to be studied and how it will contribute to the body of knowledge that already exists.
What is the introduction?
What are places?
Defined as the systematic examination of steps in the development and implementation of a program, organizational structure, policy, or staff person.
What is formative evaluation?
Relates to the model to be used and the criteria to be measured.
What is "what"?
Information developed or learned through experience, study or investigation
What is knowledge?
Gives a framework for the study.
What is the statement of the theory and/or hypotheses?
These people participant in the programs we evaluate.
What are participants?
Uses an overall examination of impact and effectiveness that is completed at the end of a program or the end of the year.
What is a summative evaluation?
Refers to the stakeholders or who wants the information
What is "who"?
The result of repeatedly applying knowledge or ability.
What is skill?
A study of what data/studies/reports currently exists and what methods have been employed to address these topics in the past.
What is a literature review?
The way an agency is organized and operated.
What are policies?
An outcome or impact evaluation.
What is a summative evaluation?
Refers to the timing and timelines
What is "when"?
An innate potential to perform mental and physical actions or tasks
What is ability?
Also known as the method and technique.
What is the research design?
Results in activities that are designed and implemented to meet certain outcomes that address specific individual and community needs.
What is program quality?
Occurs while a program or administrative procedure is in progress and is used to examine the process as it is occurring within the organization.
What is a formative evaluation?
Relates primarily to data collection and analysis
What is "how"?
Is the observable reaction of an individual to a certain situation.
What is behavior?
This results in being able to answer the hypotheses and research questions that are generated.
What is data analysis?