Optimizing Use of Evaluation Results |
Instructor: Dr. Gary T. Henry, William Neil Reynolds Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Description: Policy deliberations provide a link between evaluation findings and changes in society that may improve social conditions. Many evaluators hope to influence policy through their work, but are not well versed in ways to plan and implement studies or report findings to maximize policy influence. This course will address these issues. The course emphasizes three ways that evaluation findings can influence policy deliberations: raising social problems; identifying potential solutions; and adapting the solution to specific circumstances. Participants will learn to identify targets of opportunity for influencing policy debates and think through how to plan and implement evaluations to take advantage of such opportunities. In addition, the presentations will show how adding supplemental data can enhance usefulness of evaluations for policy deliberations and how to report data and access channels for getting information to citizens and policymakers. Participants are invited to share types and levels of policy they wish to influence so course materials can be tailored to those interests.Certificates: CEP IC.e and CAEP IIC.e CEU: |
