PAD 4320 Program Evaluation in Public Management

This course addresses public sector policy and program evaluation through examination of methodological considerations for design, data collection, analysis, and dissemination. The course emphasizes the history of evaluation, the social indicators movement, the politics of program evaluation, goal identification, performance measurement, methods of analysis, participants in the evaluation process, and the problems with partisanship.

3 credits

Prerequisites

PAD 3003, PAD 3034, PAD 3223

Corequisites

Pre/corequisite: PAD 4332