Scholar-Practitioner Project: Evaluation Plan

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Scholar-Practitioner Project: Evaluation Plan
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Scholar-Practitioner Project: Evaluation Plan
Evaluation involves the process of critically examining a project or program. It
encompasses collection as well as data analysis of a project’s characteristics, activities, and
results or outcome. According to Thomson and Hoffman, (2013), the purpose of evaluation is to
make a judgment about a project, notify programming decisions as well as improve the efficacy
and effectiveness of the program. Conducting an evaluation before the start of the project is very
important because it enables the program to be executed or implemented effectively and properly
(Fertman & Allensworth, 2017). Such evaluation enables the executor to demonstrate the
progress as well as success of the intended project. The data collected before the start of the
program allow the program’s executor to better communicate the project’s impact or effect to
others; which is very crucial for getting support from potential funders as well as public
relations.
The evaluation plan for my SPP would consists of four major types or categories of
evaluation including formative, process, impact as well as outcome (Guyot, 2012). The
promoting wellness initiative would be assessed before its commencement to predict what is
needed for its success in meeting its goals as well impact on patients and families. The
evaluation or assessment is tailored to make sure that the execution of the project would be
systematically monitored and undergo step-by-step analysis (Fertman & Allensworth, 2017). It
would also ensure that particular progress are aligned with the expected outcomes, targets, and
set goals to enable the assessment of their accurate attainment (Patton, 2014). The evaluators
including professional doctors and practitioners with a minimum of ten years’ experience in
medical health went through the proposed project to ensure that definite progress measures
would be utilized in assessing the completeness as well as quality of the project’s activities. The

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evaluators assessed the project’s objectives to ascertain whether they are achievable.
Subsequently, they read through how the project will be carried out and acknowledged that the
procedure was great.
The formative evaluation was associated with the effectiveness of the program’s
activities, practices, and procedures in executing the program as well as meeting the project’s
milestones in accordance with the proposed schedules. Quantitative data was collected through
observation, questionnaires, and interviews. The main purpose or goal of the formative
evaluation or assessment was to aid in gathering or collecting, analyzing as well as disseminating
information in the course of the program to aid the staff and program’s partners to stay on track
during the implementation of the program’s activities as well as to promote the project’s
improvement. The formative evaluation data or information was shared with the staff as well as
the project’s partners regularly throughout the evaluation. Moreover, the primary formative
questions included whether the project’s partners are would conduct the program’s activities with
conformity to the proposed management plan and design, for example, whether the project will
meet its associated objective and goal (Thomson & Hoffman, 2013). Another question which
arose included establishing whether the project in its current form will meet its targets, for
example, coordination of counseling services, training, staffing as well as engagement of parents
outreach. Additionally, the evaluators raised a question on whether the program will throughout
utilized data effectively and properly.
In the same token, an external evaluator, a professional doctor from an outside hospital,
was contracted to make sure a comprehensive evaluation is carried out. The external evaluator
gathered as well as analyzed quantitative data on a regular basis and reported findings after every
fortnight (Ecosystem Management Initiative), (2014). Subsequently, the stakeholders in the