Description
This course will focus on principles, methods and issues in conducting program evaluations in health education and health promotion programs. We will be reviewing terms, principles, and methods related to: using program evaluation as the determination of merit, worth, or significance, differences and connections between: evaluation and description, explanation, prediction, recommendation, etc., the main fields in evaluation: program, policy, proposal, product, and performance evaluation, assessing needs, process vs. outcome evaluation, bias and objectivity, evaluation models and history, theories or models for evaluation and current controversies in program evaluation. (3 units; Spring)