Knowing where to start your planning and evaluation of educational and community development programs is challenging.
Properly designed and implemented evaluation plans and needs assessments ensure your programming is based on evidence, creates lasting and measurable change, and can be justifiable for continued program support and funding.
To build educators' and community development professionals' capacities to design, evaluate, and report for their programs, Building Your Program Evaluation Plan is a self-paced, 10-hour, professional development online course that guides learners' creation of individualized evaluation plans. Upon completion of the online course, learners will have a fully developed evaluation plan to use for their programming.
A collaborative effort between the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture and the University of Maryland Extension Master Gardener Program, the Program Planning and Evaluation professional certificate is designed with you in mind. The course will walk all learners through the life cycle of an informal educational program from start to finish, including conducting an audience needs assessment, recruitment, collecting feedback and measuring outcomes.
The group of faculty that created this program have more than 30 years of combined experience.
