Health Sciences 2250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Social Capital, Summative Assessment
19 Dec 2017
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Chapter 13 evaluation: an overview: assessing and improving quality. Every effort should be made to address the two main purposes of program evaluation which is: Formative evaluation relates to quality assessment and program improvement, while summative evaluation relates to determining effectiveness. Formative evaluation begins when programs are forming, and continues on until the program is concluded. The purpose is to improve the quality of a program and its components prior to the conclusion of the program. Process evaluation tracks what went well and what went poorly and how the factors contribute to the failure or success of a program. It also measures how closely program implementation is followed and measures how well program implementation has occurred. Measures how many services and products were distributed or how many services were offered and how many people used those services/products. A critique is that some programs only use this type of evaluation and do not adequately use summative valuation.
