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Date |
Topics/Activities
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Readings
|
Assignments |
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1-9/10 |
Course Overview
and
Introduction to
Evaluation of Information Services
|
|
Distributed:
Group Presentation Project & Assignment 1 |
|
2-9/17 |
Evaluation Research, Ethics and Culture of Evaluation
Talk by Jon Kimball, Director of
Sponsored Program
at Simmons, on conducting research at Simmons
|
 | Fink, Chapter 1 |
|
Wallace & van Fleet, Chapter 1 |
|
NIH training module:
Human
Participant Protections Education
for Research Teams |
|
Distributed:
Term Project |
|
3-9/24 |
Real-world Evaluation Research and
Practice
Special Panel Session
(Location: Kotzen Meeting Center)
|
|
Wallace & van Fleet, Chapter 2:
11-22 |
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Bertot & Davis, Chapter 1 (Available on WebCT Vista) |
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4-10/1 |
Evaluation Questions; Standards of Effetiveness, and Review of
Literature
Group
Presentation: Case Study 2.1
|
| Fink, Chapter 2, Chapter 5:
132-137 |
|
Evaluating Research Guidelines excerpted from Pyrczak, F. (2005). Evaluating
Research in Academic Journals (Available on WebCT Vista) |
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Wallace & van Fleet, Chapter 2:
23-39 |
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Due:Assignment
1
Distributed:
Assignment 2
|
|
10/8 |
No class:
Columbus Day |
|
|
5-10/15 |
Evaluation Designs
and Frameworks
Group Presentation: Case Study 2.2
|
| Fink, Chapter 3 |
|
Bertot & Davis,
Chapter 2 |
|
Wallace & van Fleet, Chapter
2: 41-51
|
|
|
|
6-10/22 |
Survey Research, Sampling and
Usability Principles
Group Presentation: Case Study 5.1
|
| Fink, Chapter 4 |
|
Preece, Chapter 1 |
| Wallace & van Fleet, Chapter 5 |
|
Team
Formation for the Term Project |
|
7-10/29 |
Questionnaire Development and
Interview Protocols
Group Presentation: Case Study 3.1
|
|
Fink, Chapter 5: 117-131 |
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Miller, T. I. (1994). "Designing and Conducting Surveys," in Wholey,
et al. (eds). pp. 271-292 (Available on WebCT Vista) |
|
Preece, Chapter 13 |
|
|
Wallace & van Fleet,
Chapter 3
|
|
Due:Assignment
2
Distributed:
Assignment 3 |
|
8-11/5 |
Evaluation Measures
Group
Presentation: Case Study 2.4
|
| Fink, Chapter 6 |
| Wallace & van Fleet, Chapter 2:
61-77 |
|
Questionnaire Pretest Time |
|
11/12 |
No class:
Veteran's Day |
|
|
9-11/19 |
Data Management and Analysis
Group Presentation: Case Study 4.1
|
| Fink, Chapters 7 & 8 |
| Leedy & Ormord, Chapter 11
(Available on WebCT Vista) |
| Wallace & van Fleet, Chapter 4:
117-137 |
|
Due: Assignment
3 |
|
10-11/26 |
Statistics and Writing Research Proposals
Group Presentation: Case Study 4.2
|
| Fink, Chapter 9 |
| Hendricks, M. (1994). "Making a
Splash: Reporting Evaluation Results Effectively," in Wholey, et al.
(eds)., pp. 549-575. |
| Wallace & van Fleet, Chapter 4:
138-163 |
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11-12/3 |
Course Summary
& Evaluation |
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12-12/10 |
 Due:
Written Research Proposal
|
Rong Tang 2007.