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Handbook for fluency training: Fast and accutate sight words
Program evaluation
Formal evaluation of a program is often undertaken to demonstrate fiscal responsibility. It is reasonable to want to know if the costs of a program really do deliver the intended benefits and to what extent this is done efficiently. But program evaluation can serve other, equally worthy, ends.
Program evaluation is an appropriate way to judge to what extent the program is meeting the needs for which it was originally intended. It can be an opportunity to revisit the original goals of the program and to renew the original commitment. Equally, program evaluation can lead naturally into program renewal and to the development of a new vision and mandate.
Program evaluation need not be threatening if the staff of the program is involved in the development and conduct of the evaluation. This can provide an opportunity for program staff to be intimately involved in the regeneration of a program or in the development of a new vision.
Examples of program evaluations I have conducted include:
- Evaluation of 14 employment-training programs for people with cognitive disabilities for Federal and Territorial government. (This was a major project that took over two years to complete).
- Evaluation of a mastery learning program in a high school
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