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2019 Fall Course Info
Foundations of Community DevelopmentCommunity and Regional Economic Policy and AnalysisCommunity Development I: Principles and Strategies of Community ChangeSustainable CommunitiesCommunity Leadership and Capacity BuildingCommunity Engagement
2019 Summer Course Info
Community Development II: Organizing for Community ChangeGrantwritingImmigrants & CommunitiesElective in CD: International Development
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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

Mary Emery
Office: 605-688-4889
mary.emery@sdstate.edu

Campus Coordinator

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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

Developmental Evaluation. 2010.
Patton, M.Q.
Publisher: New York: Guilford Press

Evaluations: A Systematic Approach
Rossi, Lipsey, and Freeman
Edition: 7th Edition
Publisher: Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications

Course Access
 
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Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

Faculty
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