ASSIGNMENT 6

1. Stakeholder Information Need

1. Evaluation Outcome

1. Confirmative Evaluation Question

1. Learners-Need to participants gain relevant knowledge and basic skills for them to compete in the healthcare field

Impact - At the end of the program, at least 60% of the Gaining Success Program students should qualify for Nurse Aide certification

Did at least 60% of the learners obtain the necessary information, skills and knowledge to qualify for Nurse Aide certification?

1. Program sponsor(s)-need to find out to what extend the outcome of this program outweigh the various costs incurred in implementing it to.

Efficiency- The value created by the Gaining Success Program should justify the investment of resources from program sponsor(s). The economic benefits of the program should exceed the total costs(Saunders, Evans, & Joshi, 2005)

Do the economic benefits of Gaining Success Program outweigh the funds from program sponsor(s) by over 30%?

1. American Nurses Association (ANA)-Need to find out whether the , information, knowledge and skills learned during this program were adequate to meet the standards set by the American Nurses Association(ANA)

Effectiveness- After the completion of all the semesters, skills, information and knowledge gained from this program should be adequate to help the individual meet the standards set by American Nurses Association.

Are the skills, information and knowledge gained by learners adequate to meet the standards set my American

Nurses Association?

4 Local community- The program should be able to reduce the rate of unemployment in the local community by imparting knowledge and skills to learners for them to qualify for absorption as Home Health Aides in the healthcare sector

Value- Gaining Success Program should decrease unemployment in the local community by at least 10 %

After completion of the program, did unemployment in the local community reduce by at least 10%?

Resource needed

Rationale

Staff

People are the most important resources in the implementation of this program. It is the staff that carries out activities such as data analysis, interpretation and decision making. Without the staff, it is impossible to oversee process evaluation, impact valuation, outcome evaluation and other activities such as monitoring.

Equipment

These include office materials, computers, drawing boards, test equipment among others. These equipment’s increase the ease in which all activities of the program are carried out. The logic models employed in the evaluation such as flow charts require computer software for all their manipulation. These resources increase the speed, accuracy and convenience of the whole evaluation exercise.

Time

Each of the successive activities of both the evaluation plan and other phases of the whole program need time. Adequate time helps to meet deadline, economize resources and prioritize activities.

Budget

All activities involved in the evaluation plan and the entire program involve costs. Adequate budget helps to meet all requirements of the plan. Funds from program sponsors are employed paying program facilitators, purchasing materials training/teaching materials such as charts.