Graduate Catalog 2023-2024

EDD 8870 Program Design and Evaluation

In this course, candidates will learn basic principles and tools for program evaluation, to lead efforts in their schools for site-based evaluation of specific programs. This course will use a problem-to-project design in which candidates will work together learning to evaluate case studies and then progress to evaluate programs in their own schools.

Registration Name

Program Design and Evaluation

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Offered

TBA

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Evaluate instruments used to assess student learning in educational programs. 
  2. Apply principles and tools of program evaluation to evaluate programs. 
  3. Develop a systematic evaluation plan aligned with chosen criteria, identifying sources of necessary data and potential threats to validity. 
  4. Collect, analyze, and interpret data to evaluate a current educational program. 
  5. Write a report summarizing important results of evaluation, as well as limitations of the data.