FHOP Webinar Training – Program Evaluation, 7.18.12

Discussion questions

1. Pick the statement that best describes you:

·  I regularly evaluate my programs

·  I would love to evaluate my program but I don’t know how

·  I would love to evaluate my programs, but I don’t have the time or resources

·  I worry if I evaluate my programs, I will find out they aren’t working

·  My focus is on delivering services not evaluation

2. What do you think is/are the important reason to evaluate your programs:

·  Demonstrate effective use of resources

·  Determine program effectiveness

·  Provide accountability/credibility

·  Continuous quality assurance

·  Build commitment

·  Affect those whose participate

·  Share information

3. What step is most challenging for you when doing program evaluation

·  Engaging stakeholders

·  Describing the program

·  Designing the evaluation

·  Gathering evidence

·  Justifying conclusions

·  Using and sharing lessons learned

4. True or False – evaluation can and should be done at all steps of a program from planning to implementation

5. By June 30, 2012, 75% of post-partum women who receive home visiting and case management in Friendly County will demonstrate knowledge about the importance of their current health on their future health and the health of their children.

What type of evaluation would best allow you to determine if this objective has been accomplished?

Needs/Asset Assessment

Formative Evaluation

Process Evaluation

Outcome Evaluation

Efficiency/Economic Evaluation

6. By June 30, 2012, 100% of physicians delivering at Happy Hospital will be able to identify at least one adverse neonatal outcome associated with elective deliveries between 37 and 39 weeks.

What kind of evaluation design would be the most feasible and cost effective for helping you to determine if this objective has been met?

Posttest

Pre-posttest

Pre-posttest with comparison group

Pre-post with a control group

7. By June 30, 2012, Inform 100 low-income teens, women and parents about the importance of oral health for themselves and their children.

What type of evaluation would you use to determine if this objective has been accomplished?

Needs/Asset Assessment

Formative Evaluation

Process Evaluation

Outcome Evaluation

Efficiency/Economic Evaluation

8. By March 30, 2012, 80% of teens will know where to obtain birth control.

What kind of evaluation design would be the most feasible and cost effective for helping you to determine if this objective has been met?

Posttest only

Pre-posttest

Pre-posttest with comparison group

Pre-post with a control group

If you chose “posttest only”, what threats might you face to the validity of your findings?

Maybe 80% of teens already knew where to obtain birth control prior to your intervention activities

9. By June 30, 2012, Friendly County Department of Public Health (FCDPH) will train 50% of Medi-Cal providers serving reproductive age women on preconception health and reproductive life planning.

What type of evaluation would you use to determine if this objective has been accomplished?

Needs/Asset Assessment

Formative Evaluation

Process Evaluation

Outcome Evaluation

Efficiency/Economic Evaluation

How could we modify this objective to make it an outcome objective that would require an outcome evaluation?