COURSE DESCRIPTION Syllabus
This course introduces students to evaluation approaches and methods for conducting scientific and rigorous evaluations of public health programs and policies. In this course, students work in teams, choose an existing public health or social program, and design a realistic evaluation using a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods. Throughout the course, students will be exposed to a variety of Center for Global Health and Development (CGHD) and other evaluations through class examples and guest lectures. Through lectures, discussion, individual and group work, students will gain skills and be able to develop a stakeholder analysis, logic models, indicators and instruments, an evaluation data base, budget, and policy memo; as well as gain experience in conducting focus groups and communicating results. Using all of these skills, students will create an evaluation portfolio complete with the essential components of a policy relevant evaluation.
Course Objectives
Utilizing various mutually-enforcing teaching methods including readings, lectures, discussion, group work, completing evaluation products, receiving feedback and revising work, the course objectives follow:
- Introduce students to methods and approaches in monitoring and evaluating programs
- Expose students to a variety of existing public health evaluations that can be critiqued according to relevant course content
- Create opportunities to learn and practice the skills needed conduct evaluation projects
- Require students to work as a team to develop realistic evaluation e-portfolios
Course e-Portfolio! (under construction)
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