Evaluation supports a dynamic process for program planning and operations. The models below indicate that program development can be a static process without evaluation (left) or a dynamic process with evaluation (right).
 

Without Performance Assessment

With Performance Assessment 

 Sense of Environment
(Assets, Needs, Trends, Influences)

   Environmental Scanning

  Sense of Environment
(Assets, Needs, Trends, Influences)

 Vision

  Strategic Feedback and Change

Vision
 

 Operational Plans
(Program Model's Objectives, Resources, Activities, Management Structure, Outcomes)

 Operational Feedback and Change

 

 Operational Plans
(Program Model's Objectives, Activities, Resources, Management, Structure)

No
Performance Assessment