Evaluating a project

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Permalink Reply by Johanna Tunon on November 21, 2009 at 11:50am

If you are doing this at an academic institution, the PI is the person who completes all the paperwork to get the Institutional Reveiw Board (IRB) approval before implementing. If you were not considering publishing your findings later, that might not be an issue for evaluations that are part of your regular job, but you said that you are dealing with minors and they are in a particularly vulnerable setting. This is a big deal with IRB committees and would probably require a full IRB review.

Johanna

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Permalink Reply by Susan Koski on November 21, 2009 at 4:29pm

Hi Johanna,
Thank you for your feedback. We have already submitted paperwork to HSC and have been approved...that's all set...I was looking to know all of the steps that this role entails so that I don't miss anything....

I have only been minimally involved in this type of project so I wasn't sure what the expectations were....

thanks again!

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Permalink Reply by Johanna Tunon on November 23, 2009 at 1:11pm

Hi Susan, I am a librarian and dissertation chair who have had some EdD students do program evaluations so I cannot speak to your specific circumstance, but the model we tend to use in educational settings is Stufflebeam's CIPP Model (Content, Input, Process, and Product). Stufflebeam has a website with his evaluation checklist that you may find helpful -- http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/checklists/cippchecklist.htm The nice thing about this model is you can for a needs assessment, formation evaluation of a program, or a smmative assessment without being required to complete all the steps.

Good luck!
Johanna

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Permalink Reply by Susan Koski on November 23, 2009 at 4:31pm

This is great, thank you Johanna!

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