Assessment planning, critical analysis

Types of Outcomes:

Types of Outcomes:

• Operational outcomes are outcomes that measure progress toward a goal, but are not related to impact. Things such as the number of programs or the number of students served are operational outcomes.
• Learning outcomes are the desired learning effect of a program, activity, or intervention. A students being able to resolve a conflict is an example of a learning outcome.
• Program outcomes are the desired aggregate effect of a program, activity, or intervention. An example of a program outcome is a decrease in the number of students being found responsible for alcohol violations.

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Once you have identified your goals and measurable outcomes for those goals, you can begin considering strategies that will foster those goals. For example, if your goal is for students to develop leadership skills and one outcome for that is the ability to facilitate a hall government meeting, what strategies would help students be able to facilitate a meeting? One possibility would be for them to observe other meetings and identify three best practices for meeting facilitation.

Once you have identified your goals and measurable outcomes for those goals, you can begin considering strategies that will foster those goals. For example, if your goal is for students to develop leadership skills and one outcome for that is the ability to facilitate a hall government meeting, what strategies would help students be able to facilitate a meeting? One possibility would be for them to observe other meetings and identify three best practices for meeting facilitation.

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Assessment planning cycle and critical analysis should involve 15 main stages. All of them are essential for assessing planning and appropriate answers to the above mentioned questions.

Once you have listed the strategies, you need to begin to develop the action steps that will lead to the implementation of those strategies.
Formative assessment can utilize the same methods including tracking, surveys, focus groups, portfolios, rubrics, etc.
Make sense of it answering questions such as, “based on the data, did we reach our outcomes?”
for changes to occur, the results need to get in the right hands
Report, present findings
Develop and measure formative assessment
Make sense of results
Develop action steps

Assessment planning cycle and critical analysis should involve 15 main stages. All of them are essential for assessing planning and appropriate answers to the above mentioned questions.

Reviewing, reallocating, and advocating for resources are the ultimate goals.
Now that you have the data you need to do something with it. It is time to improve the program you assessed.
Review, reallocate, advocate for resources
Retool program

Thank you for attention!