Wk5- Doing Evaluations – Outcome and Efficiency Evaluations
Brief Essay
Paper details:
Please discuss, in a brief essay of at 300 words, what you believe to be the main issues raised by the readings. Try to use specific quotes from the work to back up what you are saying.
Use only these sources (No Outside Sources):
1. Read / Discuss Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” located in this website: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/grand-jean/hurston/chapters/how.html
2. Read / Discuss E.E. Cummings, “I sing of Olaf glad and big,” located in this website: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/i-sing-olaf-glad-and-big
3. Read / Discuss F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisted,” located in this website: https://literaryfictions.com/fiction-1/babylon-revisited-by-f-scott-fitzgerald/
4. Read / Discuss Ernest Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” located in this website: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/heming.html
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Wk5- Doing Evaluations – Outcome and Efficiency Evaluations
Paper details:
Purpose
Using what you have read about outcome and efficiency evaluations, in your group develop an outline for each of these evaluations that would be used in your chosen scenario. This means you have to think about the outcomes expected, outcomes achieved and the cost of reaching these outcomes.
Instructions
When you post include the following:
• Provide a brief evaluation introduction
• Summarize and explain each step of the efficiency program outcome evaluation for the intervention developed at your scenario agency (e.g., Objectives, How Measured, Evaluation Monitoring Systems, Data Analysis and Plausible Hypothetical Results, Feedback System, and Results Dissemination and Conclusion).
• Identify what program level changes will be made based on the program evaluation results.
References
Grinnell, R., Gabor, P., & Unrau, Y. (2012). Program evaluation for social workers: Foundations of evidence-based programs (7th ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Chapters 12-13
Hsueh-Fen, S.K., Lynn, M.R. & Kyungeh, A (2012). Development of the Mexican-american family loyalty toward elderly relatives scale. Journal of Theory Construction and Testing 16(2), 38-44.
