NRS493 Professional Capstone And Practicum

Week 7 Assignment

Capstone Change Project Evaluation Plan

Review your strategic plan to implement the change proposal, the objectives, the outcomes, and listed resources. Develop a process to evaluate the intervention if it were implemented. Write a 150-250 word summary of the evaluation plan that will be used to evaluate your intervention.

The assignment will be used to develop a written implementation plan.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

 

 

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Capstone Change Project Evaluation Plan

Introduction

When a program is evaluated, it’s important to be clear about what you want to learn. In this section, we’ll cover how to design an evaluation plan based on your program’s needs and objectives.

Program Problem and Needs Assessment

• What is the problem?

• What are the needs?

• What is the context?

• Why is this issue important to the community?

• How does this issue affect the community as a whole, and in particular, how can we address it together as a group of students, teachers, parents and community members?

Evaluation Design

Evaluation design is the plan for collecting data, analyzing the data and reporting the findings. It includes four components:

• Data collection methods (e.g., interviews)

• Data analysis methods (e.g., statistical tests)

• Data reporting methods (e.g., graphs or tables).

Data Collection, Analysis, and Reporting Methods

Data collection, analysis and reporting methods

The project will collect information on the following:

• The number of students who completed the course.

• The number of students who withdrew from the course.

• The cost of attendance (COA) for each student. This is determined by dividing total tuition costs by number of credits per semester; then multiplying that figure by $1,000 per credit hour to get an approximate COA value for each student’s academic year at CCA.

Adaptation Plan

• You should have a plan to adapt the change project to meet the needs of the organization.

• You should have a plan to adapt the change project to meet the needs of your program.

• You should have a plan to adapt your change project so that it meets stakeholders’ expectations and requirements, as well as existing systems, processes, tools and technologies.

Conclusion

At the end of this process, we will have a clear picture of what needs to be done in order to improve the program and make it more effective. When we are able to clearly articulate our evaluation plan, we can start working on it right away—and map out your own plans for adapting.