Eden's Garden of Thoughts

  https://www.acspri.org.au/online-winter-program-2021/fundamentals-program-evaluation-public-policy-online     Program evaluation is important for several reasons, the largest one being positive and continual improvement. Many programs and organizations are turning towards a learning approach, where they gather data and use it to make ongoing adaptations to the programs so that it is gradually becoming more and more efficient. A lot of programs, however, lack the motivation or the funds to make evaluation a part of their goals.  So the article discussed how evaluation needed to be "useful and worth its cost" by making sure it "not only assess program implementation and results, but also identify ways to improve the program evaluated" (pg. 8). As demands rise for programs to implement evaluation measures in their practice, it is important to equip management and staff members with the right information so they are able to meet these demands.     The first t...