1. 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

2. 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.