Program Evaluation: Centers For Disease Control And Prevention

Program evaluation may be defined as the systematic collection of information about the characteristics, activities, and outcomes of programs for the purpose of making judgements about program effectiveness, improving program effectiveness, and/or informing decisions about future program development (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1999). As this definition suggests, the evaluation of a program can emphasize its characteristics, its activities, its outcomes, or some combination of these.
“Characteristics” include the context within which the program is operating, the resources used to support the program, and the staff used to implement the program.
“Activities” include those actions that must be taken in order to implement the