Master's Degree - Community Development

« Graduate Certificate - Community Development
2024 Fall Course Info
Foundations of Community DevelopmentCommunity and Regional Economic Policy and AnalysisPrinciples and Strategies of Community ChangeSustainable CommunitiesEconomic Development and Strategies and ProgramsIntroduction to Native Community Development
2024 Summer Course Info
Organizing for Community ChangeGrantwritingElective in CD: GIS for Community DevelopmentNonprofit ManagementTopics: Community Development & Advocacy In Urban Metropolitan Cities
Course Planner
Information is subject to change.
Please revisit this page again before the semester starts to make sure you have all the current information.
Drops and Refunds:
Students adhere to the drop and refund policies and deadlines of their home university.
Course Information
Evaluation of Organizations and Programs
Course Description
This course is an introduction to philosophy, techniques, and methodologies of organizational and program evaluation. Topics covered in the course include overview of program evaluation and theory, techniques to evaluate program processes and performance, evaluation designs, assessing program efficiency, models to diagnose organizations, and methods to assess organizational performance.
Contacts
Instructor

Stephanie Davison
sdaviso@ksu.edu

Campus Coordinator

For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university campus coordinator.
View the Campus Coordinator Directory >>

Disability Support Services

To request accommodations for this course, contact the disability support office at your home university. You must register each semester and for each course. Read more about the Great Plains IDEA process for requesting accommodations.

Textbooks

Being an Evaluator: Your Practical Guide to Evaluation
Donne R. Podems
ISBN: 9781462537808
Publisher: New York: Guilford Press

Evaluation in Organizations
Russ-Eft and Preskill
Edition: 2nd, 2009
ISBN: 978-0465018666
Publisher: New York: Basix Books

Evaluation: A Systematic Approach
Rossi, P., Lipsey, M., and Henry, G.
Edition: 8th, 2019
ISBN: 978-1506307886
Publisher: California: Sage.

Course Access
 
Approximately 2-3 weeks before the first day of class at K-State, the K-State campus coordinator, Ashley Schultz, will email course access instructions to visiting students for courses taught by K-State. These instructions are also available on the Visiting Students webpage at K-State. By following the course access instructions, visiting students create their K-State eID and complete the K-State Course Access Form. Students meeting all deadlines for eID creation and submission will have access to Canvas by the first day of class.
Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

Faculty
University Members
Members of the Great Plains IDEA are universities accredited by a regional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Member universities recruit, admit and graduate students, teach in an academic program and contribute to the leadership and maintenance of the alliance. Membership in the alliance is a selective process that engages institutional leadership at all levels.
More about our members »
– – Laura Rubeck, Grassland Management Graduate Certificate,
See more testimonials »