Workshop Description
Educators need to have confidence that school programs are reaching specified goals and are positively supporting the educational process. Counselors share in that responsibility. Evidence is needed to show that schools are accountable not only to themselves but to their constituents. Accountability is shown through the process of evaluation. Many school personnel are intimidated by the evaluation process because they believe it requires skills beyond their understanding and training. This workshop will help educators understand that good evaluation can be performed with no more than sixth-grade math and the use of a simple nine-step process.

Learning Objectives
• Discover how to design and conduct your own program evaluation.
• Acquire skills needed to perform basic evaluation.
• Increase your knowledge of processes involved in program evaluation.
• Learn to follow a nine-step process to conduct a credible evaluation.
• Gain a level of confidence needed to undertake a program evaluation or begin to design an evaluation.

Presenter

Janet Wall, Ed.D., has spent her career focusing on the development of career- and education-related programs, assessment instruments and evaluation. Under her leadership, the ASVAB Career Exploration won many awards, and she was instrumental in developing versions of Discover for ACT Inc. She has published hundreds of articles and technical reports and is the author of two books. She is past president of the Association for Assessment in Counseling and Education.

Schedule: Half-day training; 0.3 CEUs OR full-day training; 0.6 CEUs available to attendees

Cost: $1,500 for half day; $2,500 for full day