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Understanding Program Evaluation Basics

The document defines a program as a systematic set of activities involving multiple participants within an organization. It outlines the dimensions of programs, distinguishing between descriptive and prescriptive aspects, and describes evaluation as a method for assessing program effectiveness against expected outcomes. The objectives and steps of program evaluation are also highlighted, emphasizing the importance of measuring societal impact and adherence to standards.

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Understanding Program Evaluation Basics

The document defines a program as a systematic set of activities involving multiple participants within an organization. It outlines the dimensions of programs, distinguishing between descriptive and prescriptive aspects, and describes evaluation as a method for assessing program effectiveness against expected outcomes. The objectives and steps of program evaluation are also highlighted, emphasizing the importance of measuring societal impact and adherence to standards.

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PROGRAM EVALUATION

Aura Shandy Al Fitri


Mahmud Yusron
Definition of Program
Program can be interpreted as planned activities
in a systematic, sustainable manner to be
implemented in real activities within the
organization and involve many people in it.
Program Dimensions
The descriptive dimension focuses on program
explanations, namely what actually happens as long as
the program functions including program resources,
program activities, program outcomes, program
impacts and specification of the chain of assumptions
linking the assumptions of cause and effect.
consequences, imminent effects, and program goal.
The prescriptive dimension focuses program
implementation on what should be done under ideal
circumstances.
The Definition of Evaluation
Evaluation is a means of arriving at value judgments on the
basis of measures (qualitative or quantitative) deemed valid
and reliable, which compare the actual results of a program
with the anticipated results. Even where evaluation is
concerned with assessing an intangible situation, which is
difficult to measure, it must be reliable based on rigorously
and objectively collected data (Rossi, 1985).
The Definition of Program Evaluation

Program evaluation is an effort to provide


information to be conveyed to decision makers
regarding a unitary activity which is a system and a
series of activities carried out continuously.
The Objectives of Program Evaluation
Measuring the impact of the program on society
Measuring whether the implementation of the program is
in accordance with the standards
identify and discover which dimensions of the program
are running, which are not working
Program accreditation
Etc
The Steps of Program Evaluation

1. The evaluator makes careful preparations


2. Obtaining data by such techniques,
3. Monitoring the implementation of the evaluation
Thank You

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