Program Planning and Evaluation in Higher Education 2/17 EAD 877

Introduction and Review 4 Interactive Model - Identifying Program Ideas 4 People 4 Organizations 4 Wider Community

Assessing Needs and Interests 4 Gap Between Theory and Practice 4 Functional vs Empowerment 4 Informal to Formal Needs Assessment 4 Strategies

Strategies for Assessing Needs 4 Brainstorm 4 Buzz Groups 4 Philips 66 4 Nominal Group 4 Delphi 4 Focus Groups

Agenda for Tonight’s Class 4 Prioritize and Sorting Program Ideas 4 Nominal Group and Delphi 4 Sork’s - articles 4 Gap Analysis - Yeon Min 4 Speaker - Diversity Focus - John H’s guest 4 Organization as Metaphor - Storyline 4 Interviews 4 Internship Experience

Discussion of Articles What did you discover in Pearce’s article on “Determining Program Needs” that captures how you might go about determining needs for a particular group? We read that group members may view situations differently. Do you notice this when working as a group on the internship project? If so, how do we compromise?

Sorting and Prioritizing Ideas Case of Cristy - how she sorted and prioritized ideas as statewide director of Cooperative Extension 4 Setup an ad hoc committee to create a series of workshops on volunteer leadership 4 addressed a major goal of the statewide strategic plan 4 major problem in needs assessment report

Analyzing and Sorting Ideas 4 Using People, Organizational, and Environmental Factors 4 Developing Criteria 4 Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches 4 Alternative Interventions Job Aids, Online, Team Building, Facilities, Job Enrichment, Transfer, Written Materials

Organization as Metaphor 4 Positive Analogy - the metaphor and the internship situation share elements in common 4 Negative Analogy - the metaphor and the situation have elements but do not share 4 Neutral - uncertain about whether features of the situation belong to the positive or negative type of analogy 4 Why are we together?

The Internship Experience 4 Ideas 4 Prioritizing 4 Next Steps