· Recall the program that you proposed in Week 4. If needed, review your previous work related to the program, client needs, and the logic model. Process evaluation considers the inputs, including resources and activities, recorded in the logic model and how they have been applied.
· Suppose your program proposal was approved, and the program was implemented at your agency, practice, or community setting. You must now develop a plan to evaluate the process of implementation. In other words, you must determine if the program is working as it was originally intended.
Submit a 4-page plan for a process evaluation based on the new program that you proposed earlier in the course.
· Provide a summary of the program and the needs of the target population.
· Explain why a process evaluation would be important for the program.
· State the type of process evaluation and stage of implementation (when in the program it will occur) and why.
· Determine who will conduct the process evaluation (internal or external evaluator).
· Include a broad question to be answered by the process evaluation (overarching question).
· Identify specific questions to be answered by the process evaluation (subquestions).
· Describe a plan for gathering and analyzing the information.
· Describe a plan for ongoing evaluations (how often, etc.).
LEARNING RESOURCES
Required Readings
· Dudley, J. R. (2020).
Social work evaluation: Enhancing what we do (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press.
· Chapter 8, “Improving How Programs and Practice Work”
· Read “Implement the Intervention as Proposed” (pp. 175–179).
· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (n.d.).
Types of evaluation Links to an external site.
. https://www.cdc.gov/std/program/pupestd/types%20of%20evaluation
· TSNE. (2018, June 14).
Process evaluation vs. outcome evaluation
Links to an external site.
. https://www.tsne.org/blog/process-evaluation-vs-outcome-evaluation
Process Evaluation Studies
· Lachman, J. M., Kelly, J., Cluver, L., Ward, C. L., Hutchings, J., & Gardner, F. (2018).
Process evaluation of a parenting program for low-income families in South Africa Links to an external site.
.
Research on Social Work Practice,
28(2), 188–202. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731516645665
· Vil, C. S., & Angel, A. (2018).
A study of a cross-age peer mentoring program on educationally disconnected young adults Links to an external site.
.
Social Work,
63(4), 327–336. https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/swy033
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