Program Evaluation

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Program Evaluation
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Purposes

• Review program from different context
• Identify strengths and weaknesses
• Determine changes that need to be made

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Review Process

• Visit classroom
• Interview students and graduates
• Meet with sponsors and committee members
• Meet with counselors and teachers
• Examine training agreements and plans,
  instructional materials, student organization
  records

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Criteria for Program Review

• Student files application, career goal,
  interview
• Textbooks and instructional materials
• Minimum/maximum enrollment
• Business, industry, and labor leaders consulted
  as resource persons
• Selection of students
• Professional growth of instructor

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Criteria for Program Review

• Coordinator on extended contract (4 wks)
• Graduate data used in planning
• Adequate budget
• Active student organization
• Related class taught by coordinator
• Training agreements on file and meet laws
• Training plan for each student and on file

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Criteria for Program Review

• Safety taught in related class and OJT
• Minimum of ½ hour per week spent with each
  student on coordination activities
• Credit given for class and OJT experience
• Training stations visited regularly
• Adequate office space and access to phone
• Public relations consistently carried out

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Collecting Data

• Who would you collect data from???
• What would you ask???
• Develop an instrument