Health Science

Project: A Program Evaluation Plan

Throughout this course, you have been developing your Course Project: A Program Evaluation Plan. To finalize your project, combine your work from the first 4 weeks (incorporating recommendations from your instructor and peers) with the final section from this week—a project timeline and dissemination plan. The timing of your program evaluation plan plays an important role in the effectiveness of your results.

There are many ways to present a timeline. For example, some evaluators write a simple paragraph describing when evaluation tasks will be completed, whereas others develop a set of milestones or goal statements that they hope to accomplish throughout the evaluation. Evaluators also may use graphs or charts to illustrate the timeline. For this project, you create a Gantt or PERT chart to present your timeline.

To prepare for this section of the Course Project:

· Review the article “Developing a Gantt and PERT Chart,” as well as “Implementation: Strategies and Associated Concerns” in the McKenzie et al. text. Consider what would be an adequate timeline to execute the evaluation you have planned. Think about the tasks and activities that should be included in a timeline for your program evaluation plan.

· Review “Evaluation Results” in Chapter 13 and “Evaluation Reporting” in Chapter 15 of the McKenzie et al. text. Think about how to appropriately disseminate the results for your program evaluation.

· Review the Course Project Guidelines to complete Week 5.