Assessment
Designed to look at the needs of a certain population.
What is a needs assessment?
Also known as intrinsic value. This is the quality of something in a particular category.
What is merit?
A person who comes from inside an organization to do an assessment and/or evaluation.
An internal evaluator.
The body of existing knowledge or the stage of information is collected. Provides the reasoning for results.
What is research?
How humane, ethical, moral, proper, legal, professional an evaluation is
What is proprietary standards?
This assessment looks at the effectiveness of a particular program.
What is a program assessment?
Also known as extrinsic value. This is value assessed in a particular context.
Someone from outside an organization who comes into assess or evaluate.
What is an external evaluator?
This process is based on a specific variable. For example, seeking to order what students learn by participating in career services.
What is Assessment?
Whether an evaluation be implemented successfully in a specific setting
What is feasibility?
This assessment focuses on what students learned from an experience.
What is a student learning assessment?
The metrics you're watching to learn more about the outcomes of your assessment
What are KPIs?
An evaluation conducted during the development of a program, with the intention to improve a program or initiative by providing feedback.
What is a formative evaluation?
This is the process of determining the effectiveness of a program or other "x" variable. Oftentimes decisions happen during this stage.
What is evaluation?
How appropriate/useful an evaluation is
What is utility?
This assessment looks at student's perspectives and opinions on a program or experience.
What is a satisfaction assessment?
This type of analysis focuses on men and women and their relationship and access to resources.
What is Gender Analysis?
An evaluation done at the completion of a program. Used for making decisions, like if a program should continue or be cut.
What is a summative evaluation?
How dependable, precise, truthful, and trustworthy an evaluation is.
What is accuracy?
This assessment is conducted by collecting data on the number and types of students who use specific services.
What is Utilization Assessment?
Someone who has interest in or is affected by the program, policy, organization, or product that is being evaluated.
What is a stakeholder?
The subject of an evaluation, like a program or service (more so than a person).
What is an evaluand?
How an assessment can be used to further the professions’ values of social justice and equity.
What is transformative action?
Whether the quality of the evaluation is assured and controlled.