case 9
Case Nine
BSHS 461
Case Nine
The evaluation process is essential to organizations because it determines their accountability in the community as well as their performance standards to the funders. Sometimes the proper information is not gathered and this makes proving those very things very difficult. The study labeled Case 9 (Lewis, Packard, & Lewis, 2007) is about an organization being evaluated by their funder and realizing that they have not gathered some of the information they were seeking. The organization had gathered all the information that was required for the previous year and had not evaluated within their own organization the information that would show their accountability to the community they serve. In this paper I will discuss preventing such situations, evaluation design, challenges and issues for the staff and evaluators, roles of the employees in this situation, and most importantly how the organization could have prevented this situation from happening.
Preventing the Situation
Prevention is all about asking the proper questions, for example, how could we have prevented this situation from happening? I think one must always ask the most important question of all when developing an evaluation which is what do we seek to learn from it. Asking this question will determine if they need to update their own evaluations every year. In addition to doing updated evaluations within their organization they could ask the funder what information they seek to get answers they need in order to complete their own organizational evaluations.
The Federal Evaluation
The scope and purpose of the federal evaluation is to show overall results on projects that they fund. This evaluation will show who is benefiting from the training workshops including all demographics. The situation at hand is that the funder wants information that the funded organization has not gathered. As professionals we must always take into account our mission
BSHS 461
Case Nine
The evaluation process is essential to organizations because it determines their accountability in the community as well as their performance standards to the funders. Sometimes the proper information is not gathered and this makes proving those very things very difficult. The study labeled Case 9 (Lewis, Packard, & Lewis, 2007) is about an organization being evaluated by their funder and realizing that they have not gathered some of the information they were seeking. The organization had gathered all the information that was required for the previous year and had not evaluated within their own organization the information that would show their accountability to the community they serve. In this paper I will discuss preventing such situations, evaluation design, challenges and issues for the staff and evaluators, roles of the employees in this situation, and most importantly how the organization could have prevented this situation from happening.
Preventing the Situation
Prevention is all about asking the proper questions, for example, how could we have prevented this situation from happening? I think one must always ask the most important question of all when developing an evaluation which is what do we seek to learn from it. Asking this question will determine if they need to update their own evaluations every year. In addition to doing updated evaluations within their organization they could ask the funder what information they seek to get answers they need in order to complete their own organizational evaluations.
The Federal Evaluation
The scope and purpose of the federal evaluation is to show overall results on projects that they fund. This evaluation will show who is benefiting from the training workshops including all demographics. The situation at hand is that the funder wants information that the funded organization has not gathered. As professionals we must always take into account our mission