week 13

OLP 4404/5504

Evaluation Plan Assignments

Overview of the Assignment

You will be creating an evaluation plan for the course you identified in your case study. You are only required to complete the what, how, and source portions of the evaluation plan. However, I encourage you to complete the entire evaluation plan; particularly those of you who are using a real-life class that you are teaching.

Requirements for the Paper

This paper will be basically APA formatted following the guidelines we have been using all semester. This means, 1-inch margins, Times New Roman font, 12 point size, double spaced. In the template for this week’s assignment, I have included subheadings for you to use. Correct grammar and complete sentences should be used for this paper. (There is still no such thing as a one sentence paragraph, although it is possible for bullets to be one sentence long.)

The reason I say basically APA formatted is that I am not requiring that the evaluation plan table be formatted in APA. The reason for this is that in real life, you will be creating an evaluation plan in a table (as illustrated in the book in figures 3-2 and 3-4). In real-life your evaluation plan will not be part of a paper, so it will not need to be formatted in APA. I don’t want you to create an APA formatted table for this assignment, when that isn’t what you’ll be doing in real life.

When you submit your assignment, you will add the evaluation plan pages from this assignment to the end of your case study document and will submit the entire document week 15. The reason for this is that your peers I need to know the details of your case study so that we can give you feedback on your evaluation plan.

A Few Things That Are Different From the Text

The text leaves the impression that every course should be evaluated at every level. I do not believe that to be true. Part of your job as an evaluator is to determine what needs to be evaluated and why, and it may be true that you have no reason to evaluate at level 1, or at level 2 (although this is very unlikely), or at level 3 or level 4. Therefore, you will only complete the evaluation plan for the levels you want to evaluate for your case study.

If there are one or more levels that you are not evaluating, you will want to individually list each level and explain your rationale for why you are not evaluating that level in your paper. You will describe the excluded levels and rationales in the last section of the paper. If you are including every level of evaluation in your evaluation plan, you do not need to include the last section in your paper.

I have changed the evaluation plan chart slightly for this assignment and to reflect common use of the four levels of evaluation. In your book on page 49, the authors separate level 3 into “on-the-job” and “environment.” In my experience, level 3 is typically treated as one category so that is how I have formatted the evaluation plan for your assignment. Your book also lists two parts for level 4, Impact and ROI. In Kirkpatrick’s original model level 4 evaluation is just impact. Jack Phillips subsequently added a level 5 which is ROI. Again, since this is the way most organizations talk about the levels of evaluation, I wanted you to work on a chart that reflects the common usage of 5 levels of evaluation.

Assignment

For this paper, please include:

· Your previous case study document. This will include:

· Cover page

· Case study description

· Level 1 evaluation

· (although not required, you are welcome to include your level 2 tests and any of your bonus assignments, even if they do not directly apply to your case study. It’s nice to have everything from the class in one document.)

· CAT assignment

· ROI assignment (week 14)

· The template of the week 15 evaluation assignment which includes:

· The business/education metrics if you have them. The text in the template will further explain this section. Delete the explanatory text before you write and submit your assignment.

· The preliminary evaluation plan, including the what, why and source columns completed. A good check for your evaluation plan is to make sure you have an evaluation planned for everything you say the student will know or do in the objectives in your case study. The remainder of the evaluation plan (how, when, and who) are not required for this assignment, but you are encouraged to complete them.

· The description and rationale for any evaluation levels that you are not using in your evaluation plan. The purpose of this section is not just to document your reasons, but paint a compelling, logic-based rationale for your peers and instructor as to why evaluating at this level does not make sense for your case study.

· Please make sure you have page numbers to your paper in the upper right corner of the page.