The final capstone project is a culmination of the written research-based assignments completed throughout the course. Each written assignment contributes to the final Evidenced-Based Proposal paper. This is the third written assignment.

Proposal

Describe your proposed solution (100-250 words).

Preparing an Implementation Plan

Develop an implementation plan (1,000-1,500 words). The elements that should be included in your plan are listed below:

1. Method of obtaining necessary approval(s) and securing support from your organization’s leadership and fellow staff.
2. Description of current problem, issue, or deficit requiring a change. If you are proposing a change in current policy, process, or procedure when delivering patient care, describe first the current policy, process, or procedure as a baseline for comparison.
3. Detailed explanation of proposed solution (new policy, process, procedure, or education to address the problem/deficit).
4. Rationale for selecting proposed solution.
5. Evidence from your review of literature in Topic 2 to support your proposed solution and reason for change.
6. Description of implementation logistics. (When and how will the change be integrated into the current organizational structure, culture, and workflow? Who will be responsible for initiating the change, educating staff, and overseeing the implementation process?)
7. Resources required for implementation: staff; educational materials (pamphlets, handouts, posters, and PowerPoint presentations); assessment tools (questionnaires, surveys, pre- and post-tests to assess knowledge of participants at baseline and after intervention); technology (technological or software needs); funds (cost of educating staff, printing or producing educational materials, gathering and analyzing data before, during, and following implementation); and staff to initiate, oversee, and evaluate change.

Evaluation Plan

Prepare an evaluation plan (500-750 words) supported by your critical appraisal of the literature.

1. Discuss methods to evaluate the effectiveness of your proposed solution.
2. Describe what your projected outcomes will be and what variables will be assessed.

General Requirements

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

 

 

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Why is an evaluation plan important?

Introduction

For anyone who’s worked with nonprofits, it’s hard to imagine that there are people out there who haven’t heard of evaluation. But even though evaluation has become a buzzword in the nonprofit sector, many nonprofits still have no idea what an evaluation plan is, or how important its role is in making decisions about their work. It’s not just about knowing which data sources to use or what questions to ask — it’s about guiding your efforts so that you can get the most from your evaluations.

It’s necessary to have an evaluation plan before you make decisions about how to evaluate the impact of your work.

An evaluation plan is necessary to help you make decisions about how to evaluate the impact of your work. It can be used in many situations, including:

• When you want to improve a program or service that has been implemented.

• When there are questions about whether or not something needs to be done differently (i.e., does this project need more funding?).

• When an organization needs help evaluating its efforts and determining what improvements might be made in the future.

In order to use your evaluation findings to make improvements in your work, you need to understand how to gather the right data.

If you want to use your evaluation findings to make improvements in your work, then you need to understand how to gather the right data.

When it comes to evaluating what’s working and what isn’t, there is no substitute for firsthand observation. You can’t just read about something and assume that it works or doesn’t work—you have to observe it directly. However, this does not mean that all of our actions are perfectly objective; in fact, we often interpret things differently than others do (for example: I think my friend is right when she says “I never listen,” but another person might interpret her comment as “I never hear”). This means that even though our personal biases might affect how we perceive things (e.g., they might lead us into making assumptions about someone’s intentions), they don’t necessarily invalidate our observations because these interpretations come from within ourselves rather than being imposed externally by other people or situations around us!

It keeps you focused.

An evaluation plan can help you stay focused.

The first thing to remember is that an evaluation plan is not a checklist; it’s a guide for how to use the data collected by your evaluation process. You should always be making sure that your team is in tune with their plan, but sometimes it can be hard for people who are new or unfamiliar with the process (or both). To keep things running smoothly, we recommend keeping a daily schedule or weekly calendar of activities so everyone knows what’s coming up next and when they should be doing it. This way there won’t be any surprises during crunch time!

Another benefit of having an organized workflow is accountability: if someone has missed something important because they weren’t following instructions correctly—or worse yet didn’t read them at all—they won’t get away without punishment because the project manager knows what was supposed to happen next week before anything else did!

An evaluation plan is like a good recipe — it tells you what you need and how you’ll use it.

An evaluation plan is like a good recipe — it tells you what you need and how you’ll use it.

For example, if your company is launching a new product or service, the plan should tell you:

• Who will be involved in the project (executive team members, marketing team members)

• What resources are needed to complete this project (time and money)

• The timeline for completion of said project (how long it will take to get your new product/service ready for market launch)

Your evaluation plan guides where and how you should collect and use data.

Your evaluation plan guides where and how you should collect and use data.

Your evaluation plan is a guide to help you understand your data, so that you can make informed decisions about what data to collect, and how to use it. It’s also a plan of action for gathering data—a step-by-step process for getting the information that will help inform your decisions.

Evaluating data correctly helps us better understand the impact of our work.

Evaluation is the process of determining how well you’re doing your job. It’s a key part of every organization’s decision-making process, but it can be difficult to know how to evaluate data correctly.

Data is crucial in making evaluations: it provides evidence that helps us understand what’s working and what isn’t, as well as which tasks we should focus on improving next. Data also helps us understand why certain things are happening—for example, if a project doesn’t meet its goals or expectations after two years of budgeting time and resources into it, then evaluating that project may provide some insight into why this happened (and how we can avoid similar situations in future).

Once your evaluation is complete, it will influence future work.nTakeaway: An evaluation plan will help guide your process.

Once your evaluation is complete, it will influence future work. The data you gather during this process can guide you in how to improve your work and make better decisions going forward.

• Evaluate what you are doing: You should take some time to evaluate what kind of impact the program has on participants and community members. This will help determine whether there was a goal reached or not, as well as if there were any unintended consequences that may have arisen from the program’s implementation (e.g., increased crime).

• Use the data: As we mentioned above, once evaluations are completed they can be used for future decision-making purposes such as planning sessions or workshops where team members present their findings from previous studies/projects conducted under similar circumstances (this also includes evaluating whether programs were successful overall — see #3 below).

Conclusion

When your evaluation is complete, it will influence future work. This means that you should spend time thinking about the results of your evaluation and how they will affect your decisions. An evaluation plan can help guide this process by giving you a clear picture of what data you should collect and how to use them in order to get the most reliable results possible.