Policy Evaluation

POLICY EVALUATION Policies are rules that are created by the government to make our country peaceful and progressive country. Policy evaluation is an efficient process for assessing the design, implementation and outcomes of public policies. Evaluation uses social science study of methods, including qualitative and quantitative techniques, to examine the effects of policies. The function of policy evaluation enables all participants in the policy process, including legislators, executives, agency officials and others, to measure the degree to which a program has achieved its goals, assess the effects and identify any needed changes to a policy. Policies are revealed through text, practices, symbols and discourses that define and deliver values including goods and services as well as regulations, income, status and other positively or negatively valued attributes. Policies are not just contained in laws and regulations; once a law or rule is made, policies continue to be made as the people who implement policy – that is, those who put policies into effort – make decisions about who will benefit from policies and who will shoulder burdens as a result. For the government, policies are important to keep the country in harmony and peace. One may say that policies are laws or rules and regulations implemented by a certain authority. In the case of the country, it can be the laws, proclamations, memorandums and administrative order issued by the government. The two main types of policy evaluation are formative and summative evaluation. Formative evaluation is examines the operation of the program, usually for the purpose of on the road to recovery the program and assessing its implementation. Summative evaluation is a method for judging the worth of a program while the program activities are forming in progress. This part of the evaluation focuses on the process. Policy consideration is a rarely as simple as some politicians suggest. Policy-makers often want