PE Week 1 Discussion 1

To prepare:

• Review the program evaluation media resources in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Consider the usefulness of program evaluations for positive social change.

Post an introduction in which you answer each of the following questions:

• What is your degree/program of study? What is your professional area of interest within psychology?
• How might this course relate to your professional goals?
• Do you have any experience and/or familiarity with any of the following activities?
  If so, please describe your role(s)/responsibilities for each:
  • Program/project design or development
  • Program/project implementation, application
  • Evaluation activities within a program evaluation
  • Preparing grants or other formal proposals for funding
  • Supervising a program evaluation
  • Serving on a team for a program evaluation project
  • Writing a program evaluation proposal and/or grant application
• If you are currently affiliated (directly or indirectly) with a program or project that you would like to use for your term assignment (i.e., to develop a proposal for an evaluation of some component of that program/project), please describe the program/project.