Health Sciences 2250A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Kfc, Making Money, Data Analysis

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2250A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Irwin

Document Summary

Frightening how many programs have not and do not get evaluated wasted money, resources, and opportunities. A systematic study that is designed, conducted, and reported in order to assist a client group to judge and or to improve the worth and or merit of some object of interest (shinkfield, 1985) Evaluation is the describing of the object of interest so its worth and merit can be judged (beazley, 1996) Where: worth = whether or not object/program is needed merit = whether or not object/program is good. Process of collecting and using information to guide decision making. To make confident program decisions based on systematically collected information, rather than guesstimates. Just become something is evaluated, doesn"t mean the data is going to be used it has no impact unless it is considered and used. Profs don"t have to look at their course evaluations, but they do because they are purposefully asked questions intended to improve the program.