Assignment 1: Assessment and Evaluation: Programs and Institutional, Part 4 Section 2 Section 2 of Part 4 is due by Day 7 of Week 9. Review the following instructions prior to submitting your Assignment. To prepare for Section 2 of Part 4, review the feedback provided by your Instructor on your stakeholder review questions. Prior to conducting your stakeholder review, update questions as needed. You also should review the information below. Then, conduct your stakeholder review. Assignment length: 2–3 pages Section 2 Briefly profile the stakeholder with whom you conducted your stakeholder review. Summarize the feedback you received from your stakeholder. Explain the recommended changes to your evaluation plan from the stakeholder review, noting the feedback with which you agree and the feedback with which you disagree. Include a rationale for your decision. Explain the changes that you plan to implement for your evaluation plan. Provide a rationale to support your decision, including citations to Learning Resources and/or other peer-reviewed journal articles. Reflect on the stakeholder review challenges you anticipated in the Module 4 Discussion. Explain how you mitigated the challenges. Explain insights you gained from this stakeholder review and how you can apply these insights to other phases of the program evaluation as well as to your future work as an evaluator. Assignment 2: Assessment and Evaluation: Programs and Institutional, Part 5 As you have explored throughout this module, analyzing data is complex and has inherent challenges. Thus, it is essential to practice honing your skills in analyzing data in order to support valid and reliable findings. For this Assignment, you manage and analyze a dataset and use insights gained from that experience to consider changes you would make to your program evaluation plan. To prepare for this Assignment, review the Learning Resources and other peer-reviewed journal articles for guidance on data management (., coding data in SPSS or Excel, data formatting, local storage and backup procedures) and data analysis methods. Then, identify a dataset that has a scope or topic similar to your evaluation plan from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research website listed in the Learning Resources. Review the dataset from the website and determine the data management methods and data analysis methods you might apply to the dataset. Note: You may use SPSS, Excel, or another analysis software of your choice to analyze the data you selected. Assignment length: 3–4 pages Describe the dataset from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research website and the similarities to your program evaluation plan. Include a description of the scope or topic and variables. Include a copy of the raw dataset you selected. Apply the data management methods you selected. Then, explain how you implemented the management methods. Apply the data analysis methods you selected. Then, explain how you implemented the analysis methods. Explain the findings from your data analysis. Summarize insights gained, lessons learned, and/or assumptions corrected with regard to data analysis from this experience, including reflections on what you would do the same or differently in your program evaluation plan. Note: Combine this Assignment with your Part 1, 2, 3, 4 Section 1, and 4 Section 2 Assignments into one document for submission.
