Programme Analysis Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluating Programmes We do ideas for new educational, treatment, community programmes come from? For example, we might be thinking of developing a test-anxiety group for student at UTSC. It sound appropriate, but will it be used? This is a form of applied research not pure research and as such it can be extremely politically loaded. I. Needs Assessment Is there a large enough need? (effective demand) Will the programme address a clear problem? Would it be attractive to the potential users? Using STatsCan and Census data (health services recored at UTSC) Servey for existing programmes Sample the target population. Interview Key Informants: someone with experience in area Consult forcus groups: in-depth , open-ended; basis for later survey Community forum

II. Monitoring Programmes Monitoring early progress rather than evaluating the final outcome. Formative Evaluation Is the programme being implemented as designed? How is the programme being used? (quantitatively and qualitatively) The can be used as a small scale pilot project. III. Evaluating Programmes: Summative Evaluation Is the programme effect? Often difficult to answer, because people have different ideas about what it would mean to be effective. Cost-Effectiveness o Cost-Benefit Analysis: a form a simple book keeping and adding up the pluses and minuses. Rarely do we find two programmes with same effectiveness but different costs ( an easy decision). How decides on which cost and benefits to measure? Narrow versus Broad Definition. Short-Term versus Long-Term cost and benefits. All are political not scientific decisions. Science can only inform them.