Gain the skills of advanced program performance assessment and evaluation methodology for determining impact (benefit) attributable to agency program operations, investments, and changes. Learn to identify and validate cause and effect relationships in determining the outcome results of a program initiative or change. Explore various evaluation designs to isolate the results or impacts attributable to an initiative or intervening variable by comparing performance achieved with the initiative to performance without it. Learn the conditions, strengths, and weaknesses of applying each design in accounting for rival causes. Through multiple case exercises, practice planning, audits and evaluations using the design methodologies that lead to valid and supportable findings. Learn how to prepare a Cost/Benefit Analysis to determine if outcome results attributable to a program initiative are worth the cost.
Students should be familiar with cost-benefit analysis, evaluating program outcomes, and conducting performance audits. Prior experience in assessing program effectiveness and selecting appropriate evaluation methodologies is also recommended.
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