Tom Mitchell, Ph.D.
Industrial & Organizational
Psychologist
Director of Graduate Programs in
Psychology
Division of Applied Behavioral
Sciences
University of Baltimore
1420 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone: 410 837 5348
Fax: 410 837
4059
Program Evaluation course,
fall 06
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For
those graduate students who may be interested and are wondering what it's about,
I have included a description of the Program Evaluation course (scroll down
below), which will be offered in the Fall. Please read it and determine
whether the class would "speak to you" or
not.
I
will be trying something different with regards to the textbook this time, for
those who will be enrolled in the course. That is, allowing students to
order the book on-line using the vendor of their choice. We will be using
2003 edition of the book will suffice for my purposes, although there is a newer
edition which has just been released. This should help keep the book cost
down.
Thank
you.
Elliot
Lasson
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Course:
Program Evaluation
Instructor:
Elliot D. Lasson, Ph.D.
Class
Meets: Wednesdays at 5:30 PM
Required
Text: Posavac, E. & Carey, R. G. (2003). Program evaluation: Methods and case
studies (Sixth ed.). Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Program
Evaluation is a graduate-level elective course designed primarily for students
in the the Masters program in Applied Psychology. The objective of the course is to expose
students to the various issues involving the development, implementation, and
evaluation of organizational programs and policies. In the class, the research design
and methodology used to measure and track programs over time will be
presented. Secondly, there will be
ample opportunity for application.
Students will develop model organizational policies and programs. In addition, students will follow actual
programs in real organizations and present an analysis of them. This will be the basis for a paper which
will constitute the course=s
significant assignment. The
program or policy evaluation which each student conducts is the ultimate goal
for the course.