ED 791BC
Evaluation Practicum

Week 1: Group meeting via Adobe Connect (formerly named Breeze): Monday, Jan 22 at 5:15 pm/Pacific

Week 1 outcomes:

• Connect with your client (and sharing the abbreviated Sp 07 schedule); submitting (if you haven't already) the 1st Stage Evaluation Plan and minutes of your initial client meeting)
• Work on the "real" evaluation plan
• Browse (within Bb) through the 791A case studies (including your own)
• Browse (within Bb) through evaluation plans other 791BC students have developed

Week 2 outcomes:

• Begin individual meetings
• Continue working on evaluation plan

Week 3 outcomes:

• Meet individually
• Submit solid draft of evaluation plan (END of the week, via email)

Critical: February 7 is the LAST DAY to add/drop classes, apply for graduation, etc. Any changes to your program of study must have been filed/approved PRIOR to Feb 7.

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Phase 2: Design tools and instruments  
Weeks 4 through 6

OPTIONAL WORKSHOP/Week 4 (date/time TBD): Creating tools (online, paper-based)--including surveys, rubrics, observation protocols, etc.

Week 4 outcomes:

• Meet individually
• Work on drafts of all instruments -- especially important if your client has a formal approval process

Week 5 outcomes:

• Meet individually
• Continue instrument development; submit Human Subjects protocolif warranted
• Submit final (revised) evaluation plan for grading
• Review data collection strategies with client

Week 6 outcomes:

• Meet individually
• Test and finalize instruments

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Phase 3: Actively collect data
Weeks 7 through 10

Week 7 outcomes:

• Meet individually
• Begin data gathering

Week 8 outcomes:

• Meet individually
• Continue data gathering
• Participate in an informal how's it going chat (date/time TBD)

Week 9 outcomes:

• Meet individually
• Continue data gathering

Week 10 outcomes:

• Meet individually
• Close out data collection; transition to data analysis

NOTE: Spring Break is between weeks 9 and 10, beginning March 26

Week 10: Group meeting via Adobe Connect:Monday, April 2 at 5:15 pm/Pacific. We'll:

• review the final report template and jobs aids on charts/graphs, how to report findings, etc.).
• review data analysis options avaialble to you (SPSS, Analyse-it, and StatCrunch on the quantitative side; HyperResearch, Word, and FileMaker Pro for your qualitative data)
• review practice data that you can "play with" --- to build your skills and confidence

Up to six examples final reports will be posted to Bb.
Log into Blackboard--and then our course site. Choose Communication and then Live Classrooms from the navigation bar. You'll see our session listed.

OPTIONAL WORKSHOP/Week 11 (date/time TBD): Strategies for analyzing data (#1 of 2--focusing on the quantitative strategies)

OPTIONAL WORKSHOP/Week 12 (date/time TBD): Strategies for analyzing data (#2 of 2--focusing on qualitative strategies)

Week 11 outcomes:

• Meet individually
• Work on data analyses---and ways to triangulate results drawn from from different tools, from different information sources, at different points in time, etc.

Week 12 outcomes:

• Meet individually
• Work on data analyses--focusing in the interpretive end (the story your data are telling)
• Share initial results with the client

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OPTIONAL WORKSHOP/Week 14 (date/time TBD): Interpretive Writing

Weeks 15 and 16: Group meetings (formal project presentations) via Adobe Connect: May 7 and May 14 -- both at 5:15 pm/Pacific

Week 13 outcomes:

• Meet individually
• Draft final report

Week 14 outcomes:

• Meet individually
• Draft final report; submit for review by the END of the week (in Word)
• Meet with client/provide update

Week 15 outcomes:

• Meet individually (focusing on draft report)

Week 16 outcomes:

• Meet individually (focusing on the draft report and how to submit it to the client)
• FINAL report due at the end of the week (pdf only)

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