IDPT650 - Evaluation

Description:
This course presents fundamental principles and practices for evaluating courses and programs, with a focus on formative and summative evaluation and criterion-referenced testing. Students will explore evaluation models and theories, create a learner satisfaction survey, create criterion-referenced tests, create grading rubrics, and work with a data set to interpret data and make recommendations to improve a course or unit of instruction. Projects completed in the course will become part of the student’s portfolio.

Outcomes:

• Apply evaluation models and theories to create evaluation instruments
• Conduct a summative evaluation process
• Design a summative evaluation plan
• Design summative evaluation instruments
• Develop test items, in a variety of formats, to measure learning
• Develop a survey questionnaire to measure learner satisfaction
• Interpret the analysis of quantitative and qualitative evaluation data
• Communicate evaluation results and recommendations to stakeholders to improve performance

Required Text(s):

Lopez, I. (2008). Performance evaluation: Proven approaches for improving program and organizational performance. Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 9780787988838

Kirkpatrick, D., & Kirkpatrick, J. (2007). Implementing the four levels: A practical guide for effective evaluation of training programs. Berrett-Koehler.