Evaluation Plan Psy/270

|Evaluation Plan |
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|plans |
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|11/13/2011 |
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| The scenario that I choose was PEACE Domestic Violence Agency. There are three types of evaluation plans that I would use to evaluate how the program was being run, what kinds of improvement would be needed to improve the program and what the outcomes may be of those changes.

The first evaluation would be Empowerment Evaluation.
First, because program staff will be involved in conducting the evaluation, the cost of conducting empowerment evaluation will be minimal as compared to contracting with an independent person to conduct the evaluation. Second, because program staff are involved in the decisions of what to evaluate and how the evaluation should be conducted, the results will be more meaningful to staff for use in program improvement. Program staff will also be more invested in participating in the evaluation. Having staff more invested in a program increases productivity and caring as to what may happen to the program and to the clients that are working with the program. Third, the process of developing the evaluation plans forces the program staff to take a close look at the program services they intend to provide. As program staff designs the plan, they must strategically lay out the community needs, activities to address the needs of the target