Program Evaluation

Program Evaluation

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What is Program Evaluation?

The success of any organization depends on being open to feedback on the impact of your people, products, and programs, and adjusting accordingly. Program evaluation gives you this feedback from your students, customers, clients, or employees. Organizations that engage in a process of continuous improvement, guided by rigorous and thoughtful evaluations, are more successful because decisions are based on data, as opposed to opinions or beliefs. Program evaluation is essential if your organization wants to engage in data driven decision making.


Program evaluation refers to the systematic, scientific, and rigorous investigation of impact and effectiveness. It is the process of carefully collecting information in order to make more informed decisions. 


Our research consulting team helps organizations throughout the U.S. including; Miami, FL, Chicago, IL, Tampa, FL, New York, NY, Washington D.C. & Atlanta, GA.

Program Evaluation Can Help You To:

  • Understand, verify, or increase the impact of your product, service, program, or process 
  • Improve delivery mechanisms to be more efficient and less costly
  • Identify the strengths and weaknesses of your product, service, program, or process
  • Verify that your organization is doing what you think you are doing, concerning the delivery of your program or service
  • Facilitate a common vision for your leadership team concerning your goals, how you meet those goals, and how you will know if you have met those goals
  • Produce data or verify results that can be used for public relations and promoting your organization to stakeholders
  • Produce valid comparisons between programs to decide which should be retained in the face of pending budget cuts
  • Fully examine and describe the effectiveness of your organization for duplication elsewhere

There are at least 35 different types of program evaluation including:

Effectiveness

Efficiency

Summative

Formative

Needs Assessment

Goal-based

Cost Benefit Analysis

Process

The type of evaluation you choose to undertake to improve your programs or processes depends on what you want to learn about your organization to guide your decision-making process. 

Why Choose Us For Your Program Evaluator?

When you choose Research Analytics Consulting to conduct a program evaluation for your organization, we will work closely with you to ensure that we fully understand your needs. We will work with you to design a rigorous evaluation, develop instruments for data collection, analyze that data, and provide you with a final evaluation report that is focused on helping you make sound decisions.

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