1. The Role of Evaluation in Public Health
The Big Picture
The Role of Evaluation in Public Health

2. Objectives Understand the value doing program evaluations
Describe the CDC steps to program evaluation
Understand the training process we will use

3. What Is Evaluation?
A means of determining the value of something – is it worthwhile, useful, or important. It answers the question: “Are we making a difference?”

4. Why Do It? Be accountable to funders and to the public
Illustrate how you make a difference
Help make decisions about resource allocation
Document and measure progress
Communicate what you do

5. Why We Don’t No time No reason (We know what we need to do)
Prescribed system in place (We already count activities)
Don’t know how
No context (How do I begin?)
If we do it, then what?
Perceived by some as punitive, exclusionary
Not easy

6. Your Stories .
Examples from the class

7. When Should We Do It? For a program Design phase
Early implementation phase
Established, sustained phase

8. Resources Hopefully, you, after taking this course
Time and dollars (10%) should be devoted to evaluation

9. Goals for a Good Evaluation
Feasible
Useable
Accurate
Ethical

10. CDC Evaluation Framework

11. Process of Teaching Program Evaluation
Lecturette: concepts, principles of each step
Practice: application of knowledge
Completion of templates: application to own projects

12. Your Current Knowledge and Practice5 4 3 2 1
High level proficiency: can instruct and mentor others on how to conduct effective program evaluations
Proficient: can confidently perform program evaluations and show others how to accomplish them
Good knowledge: understand concepts and principles and can use in my job as needed
Limited knowledge: aware of concepts and principles and have limited practical experience
Awareness: have an understanding, but no practical experience
No understanding

13. Your Program Evaluation Goal5 4 3 2 1
High level proficiency: can instruct and mentor others on how to conduct effective program evaluations
Proficient: can confidently perform program evaluations and show others how to accomplish them
Good knowledge: understand concepts and principles and can apply them to my program, as needed
Limited knowledge: aware of concepts and principles and can begin to use them with assistance
Awareness: have an understanding of the concepts and principals of a program evaluation
No understanding

14. Questions? .