3 credits
Summer 2026 Lecture Upper Division
This course explores principles and techniques that can be used to carry out evaluations within an organization. The course also examines several aspects of conducting evaluations, including planning and designing an evaluation, developing appropriate instruments, using various methods to collect information, analyzing information obtained from those methods, and communicating results and recommendations. This course is designed to help learners understand the multiple ways that evaluation is used in instructional systems and provides opportunities to design various types of evaluation instruments. A portion of the course will examine the study of learner assessment as part of the evaluation of instructional programs; however, the course's focus is dedicated to the study of program evaluation.
Learning Outcomes1Define evaluation within the context of human performance and learning.
2Develop prototype evaluation tools and frameworks useful in training/education or workplace performance improvement.
3Synthesize knowledge by developing an evaluation plan and tools for an actual setting.
Restrictions
made by Purdue students.