IN PERSON – 5-day Statistics Short Course
Program Evaluation Course Overview:
Trying to get that grant or contract?! You need to have a rigorous, evidence-based plan to secure that funding. Almost all non-scientific evaluations will be un-awarded or quickly dismissed. You need to assess your research project or program by conducting a rigorous evaluation of it. Fields such as sociology, psychology, education, human development, marketing, business, biology, medicine, political science, communication, governmental and nonprofit agencies, will benefit from this Program Evaluation course.
Seminar Topics:
- Program theory and Logic Models
- Needs assessment
- Project Budgeting
- Monitoring progress and measuring outcomes
- Cost-effectiveness vs. Cost-benefit analysis
- Time and discounting
- Sensitivity analysis and risk analysis
- Sem and decision tree extensions of cost-benefit analysis.
- Reporting writing
Seminar Description:
Fields such as sociology, psychology, education, human development, marketing, business, biology, medicine, political science, communication, governmental and nonprofit agencies, will benefit from this Program Evaluation and Cost-Benefit Analysis course.
Instructor: Mwarumba Mwavita, Ph.D.
Mwarumba Mwavita is Director of the Center for Educational Research and Evaluation (CERE) at Oklahoma State University. In addition, he is a Professor in the Research, Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics (REMS) program in the College of Education and Human Sciences at Oklahoma State University where he teachers the GLM sequence of courses that includes ANOVA, Multiple Regression, MANOVA, and Multilevel Modeling.
Learning Objectives:
After engaging in course lectures and discussions as well as completing the hands-on practice activities with real data, participants will be able to:
- Describe the roles Stakeholder and Evaluator engagement play in developing an evaluation plan.
- Develop evaluation questions.
- Implement needs assessment and program planning.
- Describe how to formulate and assess program theory.
- Monitor program process.
- Measure outcomes using program evaluation methods
- Describe cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness.
- Implement resource allocation and decision-making strategies.
- Perform the steps in a cost-benefit analysis.
- Evaluate whose viewpoint is being analyzed.
- Measure value costs and benefits
- Evaluate time values and decision rules.
- Perform a sensitivity analysis.
- Evaluate uncertainty and risk.
- Perform a risk analysis
- Describe the structural equation modeling extensions of a cost-benefit analysis.
- Implement decision tree methods in a cost-benefit analysis framework.
Program Evaluation Course Prerequisites:
None Required Prerequisites Listed for This Course:
Software and Computer Support:
Participants need to bring a laptop computer with Wi-Fi capabilities. Students must have access to R Studio.
All statistical software used at Stats Camp will be available, free to participants, on our SMORS (statistical modeling on remote servers) system for the duration of camp.
Seminar Audience:
If you need to analyze a program or to conduct cost-effectiveness or cost-benefit analyses, this seminar is for you. You should have a good working knowledge of the principles and practice of elementary statistical inference. You do not need to know matrix algebra, calculus, or decision theory (although knowledge of decision theory might be beneficial). Participants from a variety of fields, including sociology, psychology, education, human development, marketing, business, biology, medicine, political science, communication, and governmental and nonprofit agencies, will benefit from the seminar.
Seminar Files
For those who have enrolled in the seminar please download these files onto your computer before the first day of the seminar. The files are password protected to respect the intellectual property rights of the instructors. By using your login information you agree not to share your login information or the content protected by it.
Instructor will provide password on first day of seminar.
All statistical software used at Stats Camp will be available, free to participants, on our SMORS (statistical modeling on remote servers) system for the duration of camp.
Summer Stats Camp 2024: Program Evaluation and Cost-Benefit Analysis |
|
Monday | June 3, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | Welcome and Introduction to Program Evaluation |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Focusing Evaluation: Stakeholders and Evaluator Engagement in Developing and Evaluation Plan |
12:30–1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30–3:15 | Process of Program Evaluation: Formulating Evaluation Questions |
3:15–3:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
3:30–5:00 | Needs Assessment and Program Planning |
Tuesday | June 4, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | Program Theory: How to Formulate and Access Program Theory |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Program Monitoring Process |
12:30–1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30–3:15 | Measuring Outcomes; Methods in Program Evaluation |
3:15–3:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
3:30–5:00 | Results and Interpretations in Program Evaluation |
Wednesday | June 5, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | Introduction to Cost Benefits and Cost Effectiveness |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Recourse Allocation and Decision Making |
12:30–1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30–3:15 | Steps in Cost Benefit Analysis |
3:15–3:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
3:30–5:00 | Whose Viewpoint? |
Thursday | June 6, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | Measuring and Valuing Cost and Benefits |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Time Values and Decision Rules |
12:30–1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30–3:15 | Sensitivity Analysis |
3:15–3:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
3:30–5:00 | Uncertainty, Risk and Risk Analysis |
Friday | June 7, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | SEM Extensions and Cost-Benefit Analysis |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Decision Tree Extensions and Cost-Benefit Analysis |
12:30–1:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
1:30~3:30 | Individual Consultations |
Please fill out and submit the form below to get instant access to sample course materials.
Learning Objectives:
After engaging in course lectures and discussions as well as completing the hands-on practice activities with real data, participants will be able to:
- Describe the roles Stakeholder and Evaluator engagement play in developing an evaluation plan.
- Develop evaluation questions.
- Implement needs assessment and program planning.
- Describe how to formulate and assess program theory.
- Monitor program process.
- Measure outcomes using program evaluation methods
- Describe cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness.
- Implement resource allocation and decision-making strategies.
- Perform the steps in a cost-benefit analysis.
- Evaluate whose viewpoint is being analyzed.
- Measure value costs and benefits
- Evaluate time values and decision rules.
- Perform a sensitivity analysis.
- Evaluate uncertainty and risk.
- Perform a risk analysis
- Describe the structural equation modeling extensions of a cost-benefit analysis.
- Implement decision tree methods in a cost-benefit analysis framework.
Program Evaluation Course Prerequisites:
None Required Prerequisites Listed for This Course:
Software and Computer Support:
Participants need to bring a laptop computer with Wi-Fi capabilities. Students must have access to R Studio.
All statistical software used at Stats Camp will be available, free to participants, on our SMORS (statistical modeling on remote servers) system for the duration of camp.
Seminar Audience:
If you need to analyze a program or to conduct cost-effectiveness or cost-benefit analyses, this seminar is for you. You should have a good working knowledge of the principles and practice of elementary statistical inference. You do not need to know matrix algebra, calculus, or decision theory (although knowledge of decision theory might be beneficial). Participants from a variety of fields, including sociology, psychology, education, human development, marketing, business, biology, medicine, political science, communication, and governmental and nonprofit agencies, will benefit from the seminar.
Seminar Files
For those who have enrolled in the seminar please download these files onto your computer before the first day of the seminar. The files are password protected to respect the intellectual property rights of the instructors. By using your login information you agree not to share your login information or the content protected by it.
Instructor will provide password on first day of seminar.
All statistical software used at Stats Camp will be available, free to participants, on our SMORS (statistical modeling on remote servers) system for the duration of camp.
Summer Stats Camp 2024: Program Evaluation and Cost-Benefit Analysis |
|
Monday | June 3, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | Welcome and Introduction to Program Evaluation |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Focusing Evaluation: Stakeholders and Evaluator Engagement in Developing and Evaluation Plan |
12:30–1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30–3:15 | Process of Program Evaluation: Formulating Evaluation Questions |
3:15–3:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
3:30–5:00 | Needs Assessment and Program Planning |
Tuesday | June 4, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | Program Theory: How to Formulate and Access Program Theory |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Program Monitoring Process |
12:30–1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30–3:15 | Measuring Outcomes; Methods in Program Evaluation |
3:15–3:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
3:30–5:00 | Results and Interpretations in Program Evaluation |
Wednesday | June 5, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | Introduction to Cost Benefits and Cost Effectiveness |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Recourse Allocation and Decision Making |
12:30–1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30–3:15 | Steps in Cost Benefit Analysis |
3:15–3:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
3:30–5:00 | Whose Viewpoint? |
Thursday | June 6, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | Measuring and Valuing Cost and Benefits |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Time Values and Decision Rules |
12:30–1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30–3:15 | Sensitivity Analysis |
3:15–3:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
3:30–5:00 | Uncertainty, Risk and Risk Analysis |
Friday | June 7, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | SEM Extensions and Cost-Benefit Analysis |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Decision Tree Extensions and Cost-Benefit Analysis |
12:30–1:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
1:30~3:30 | Individual Consultations |
Please fill out and submit the form below to get instant access to sample course materials.
Learning Objectives:
After engaging in course lectures and discussions as well as completing the hands-on practice activities with real data, participants will be able to:
- Describe the roles Stakeholder and Evaluator engagement play in developing an evaluation plan.
- Develop evaluation questions.
- Implement needs assessment and program planning.
- Describe how to formulate and assess program theory.
- Monitor program process.
- Measure outcomes using program evaluation methods
- Describe cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness.
- Implement resource allocation and decision-making strategies.
- Perform the steps in a cost-benefit analysis.
- Evaluate whose viewpoint is being analyzed.
- Measure value costs and benefits
- Evaluate time values and decision rules.
- Perform a sensitivity analysis.
- Evaluate uncertainty and risk.
- Perform a risk analysis
- Describe the structural equation modeling extensions of a cost-benefit analysis.
- Implement decision tree methods in a cost-benefit analysis framework.
Program Evaluation Course Prerequisites:
None Required Prerequisites Listed for This Course:
Software and Computer Support:
Participants need to bring a laptop computer with Wi-Fi capabilities. Students must have access to R Studio.
All statistical software used at Stats Camp will be available, free to participants, on our SMORS (statistical modeling on remote servers) system for the duration of camp.
Seminar Audience:
If you need to analyze a program or to conduct cost-effectiveness or cost-benefit analyses, this seminar is for you. You should have a good working knowledge of the principles and practice of elementary statistical inference. You do not need to know matrix algebra, calculus, or decision theory (although knowledge of decision theory might be beneficial). Participants from a variety of fields, including sociology, psychology, education, human development, marketing, business, biology, medicine, political science, communication, and governmental and nonprofit agencies, will benefit from the seminar.
Seminar Files
For those who have enrolled in the seminar please download these files onto your computer before the first day of the seminar. The files are password protected to respect the intellectual property rights of the instructors. By using your login information you agree not to share your login information or the content protected by it.
Instructor will provide password on first day of seminar.
All statistical software used at Stats Camp will be available, free to participants, on our SMORS (statistical modeling on remote servers) system for the duration of camp.
Summer Stats Camp 2024: Program Evaluation and Cost-Benefit Analysis |
|
Monday | June 3, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | Welcome and Introduction to Program Evaluation |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Focusing Evaluation: Stakeholders and Evaluator Engagement in Developing and Evaluation Plan |
12:30–1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30–3:15 | Process of Program Evaluation: Formulating Evaluation Questions |
3:15–3:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
3:30–5:00 | Needs Assessment and Program Planning |
Tuesday | June 4, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | Program Theory: How to Formulate and Access Program Theory |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Program Monitoring Process |
12:30–1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30–3:15 | Measuring Outcomes; Methods in Program Evaluation |
3:15–3:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
3:30–5:00 | Results and Interpretations in Program Evaluation |
Wednesday | June 5, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | Introduction to Cost Benefits and Cost Effectiveness |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Recourse Allocation and Decision Making |
12:30–1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30–3:15 | Steps in Cost Benefit Analysis |
3:15–3:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
3:30–5:00 | Whose Viewpoint? |
Thursday | June 6, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | Measuring and Valuing Cost and Benefits |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Time Values and Decision Rules |
12:30–1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30–3:15 | Sensitivity Analysis |
3:15–3:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
3:30–5:00 | Uncertainty, Risk and Risk Analysis |
Friday | June 7, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | SEM Extensions and Cost-Benefit Analysis |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Decision Tree Extensions and Cost-Benefit Analysis |
12:30–1:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
1:30~3:30 | Individual Consultations |
Please fill out and submit the form below to get instant access to sample course materials.
Learning Objectives:
After engaging in course lectures and discussions as well as completing the hands-on practice activities with real data, participants will be able to:
- Describe the roles Stakeholder and Evaluator engagement play in developing an evaluation plan.
- Develop evaluation questions.
- Implement needs assessment and program planning.
- Describe how to formulate and assess program theory.
- Monitor program process.
- Measure outcomes using program evaluation methods
- Describe cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness.
- Implement resource allocation and decision-making strategies.
- Perform the steps in a cost-benefit analysis.
- Evaluate whose viewpoint is being analyzed.
- Measure value costs and benefits
- Evaluate time values and decision rules.
- Perform a sensitivity analysis.
- Evaluate uncertainty and risk.
- Perform a risk analysis
- Describe the structural equation modeling extensions of a cost-benefit analysis.
- Implement decision tree methods in a cost-benefit analysis framework.
Program Evaluation Course Prerequisites:
None Required Prerequisites Listed for This Course:
Software and Computer Support:
Participants need to bring a laptop computer with Wi-Fi capabilities. Students must have access to R Studio.
All statistical software used at Stats Camp will be available, free to participants, on our SMORS (statistical modeling on remote servers) system for the duration of camp.
Seminar Audience:
If you need to analyze a program or to conduct cost-effectiveness or cost-benefit analyses, this seminar is for you. You should have a good working knowledge of the principles and practice of elementary statistical inference. You do not need to know matrix algebra, calculus, or decision theory (although knowledge of decision theory might be beneficial). Participants from a variety of fields, including sociology, psychology, education, human development, marketing, business, biology, medicine, political science, communication, and governmental and nonprofit agencies, will benefit from the seminar.
Seminar Files
For those who have enrolled in the seminar please download these files onto your computer before the first day of the seminar. The files are password protected to respect the intellectual property rights of the instructors. By using your login information you agree not to share your login information or the content protected by it.
Instructor will provide password on first day of seminar.
All statistical software used at Stats Camp will be available, free to participants, on our SMORS (statistical modeling on remote servers) system for the duration of camp.
Summer Stats Camp 2024: Program Evaluation and Cost-Benefit Analysis |
|
Monday | June 3, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | Welcome and Introduction to Program Evaluation |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Focusing Evaluation: Stakeholders and Evaluator Engagement in Developing and Evaluation Plan |
12:30–1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30–3:15 | Process of Program Evaluation: Formulating Evaluation Questions |
3:15–3:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
3:30–5:00 | Needs Assessment and Program Planning |
Tuesday | June 4, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | Program Theory: How to Formulate and Access Program Theory |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Program Monitoring Process |
12:30–1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30–3:15 | Measuring Outcomes; Methods in Program Evaluation |
3:15–3:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
3:30–5:00 | Results and Interpretations in Program Evaluation |
Wednesday | June 5, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | Introduction to Cost Benefits and Cost Effectiveness |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Recourse Allocation and Decision Making |
12:30–1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30–3:15 | Steps in Cost Benefit Analysis |
3:15–3:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
3:30–5:00 | Whose Viewpoint? |
Thursday | June 6, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | Measuring and Valuing Cost and Benefits |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Time Values and Decision Rules |
12:30–1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30–3:15 | Sensitivity Analysis |
3:15–3:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
3:30–5:00 | Uncertainty, Risk and Risk Analysis |
Friday | June 7, 2024 |
9:00–10:45 | SEM Extensions and Cost-Benefit Analysis |
10:45–11:00 | Snack and Rest Break |
11:00–12:30 | Decision Tree Extensions and Cost-Benefit Analysis |
12:30–1:30 | Snack and Rest Break |
1:30~3:30 | Individual Consultations |
Please fill out and submit the form below to get instant access to sample course materials.