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Learning from Practice: Continuous Improvement and Evaluation

This module focuses on the concept of "improvement," addressing how individuals or groups can enhance practices, routines, products, or outcomes. Participants will engage in sharing personal experiences with improvement efforts and identify common characteristics among their stories. The course emphasizes evaluation as a systematic means to assess and improve programs or policies based on set standards. Key assignments include developing a formative evaluation proposal and reflecting on learning, aimed at building organizational capacity through continuous improvement science and evaluation practices.

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Learning from Practice: Continuous Improvement and Evaluation

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  1. Learning from Practice: Continuous Improvement and Evaluation A-011B Candice Bocala Spring 2014 Module

  2. What is “improvement”? [2 min] • Think about a time when you or a group you were a part of tried to improve something... • This can be a practice, a routine, a product, or an outcome. [5 min] • Share your experience with your neighbor. Switch after 2 minutes. [5 min] • What common characteristics did each story have?

  3. Two foundations for the course

  4. Evaluation is the systematic assessment of the operation and/or the outcomes of a program or policy, compared to a set of explicit or implicit standardsas a means of contributing to the improvement of the program or policy. Carol Weiss (1998)

  5. Course essential questions • How can program theory be used in evaluation and improvement? • What are the relationships among practitioners, researchers, and evaluators in various models of continuous improvement? • How can improvement science and evaluation practices be used to build organizational capacity?

  6. 6-week sequence

  7. Assignments • Task: Develop formative evaluation proposal • Key skills & capacities: • Communicate with program stakeholders • Diagram program theory / logic modeling • Write evaluation questions • Align data collection with evaluation questions • Task: Reflect on your learning • Key skills & capacities • Demonstrate understanding and integration of course content • Synthesize learning for your future work

  8. Learning from practitioners

  9. A-011B partner organizations MEDscience Curriculum for High School Students

  10. Class pedagogy

  11. Logistics Grading: • Attendance and class participation: 25% • Progress on components of evaluation proposal: 25% • Completed evaluation proposal: 25% • Final reflective memo: 25% • Can take class for a grade or pass/fail • Final assignments are due March 13, 2014 (1 week after class ends) • No need for instructor permission to enroll • No enrollment limit on the course

  12. Candice Bocala ceb193@mail.harvard.edu Office: Gutman 405 Hope to see you in class!

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