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Program Planning and Improvement
Evaluation Types
5 Step Approach
Evaluation Cycle

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 Plans
(Mission, Goals)


  Strategic Feedback and Change

Vision
 


Strategic Plans
(Mission, Goals)
 

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

 
Program Operations

 Operational Feedback and Change

 

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


Program Operations


No
Performance Assessment

 

 


Performance Assessment


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