Online Graduate Certificate in Evaluation Methodology
Evaluation Methodology
Program Overview
Evaluation is the systematic study of an organization or program’s fidelity, merit, or worth using a recognized set of national standards. With an online evaluation methodology graduate certificate, students will undergo a comprehensive, rigorous study of the field of evaluation applicable to various career settings. Students will learn quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods evaluation designs, effective communication skills, cutting-edge reporting strategies, and hands-on application of evaluation procedures from program faculty who are all active members of the American Evaluation Association.
Why Choose Evaluation Methodology?
Demand for evaluation methodology professionals is increasing. With this online graduate certificate, you will learn the skills necessary to plan, organize, and implement program evaluations in schools, higher education institutions, community organizations, and government agencies. You’ll gain key insights into making data-driven decisions based on your research, with instruction grounded in real-world scenarios.
Admission Requirements
- Applicants can be currently enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Tennessee or can apply through the Graduate Admissions Office.
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Featured Courses
This is the first of a two-course series focused on program evaluation. This course provides an introduction to applied formative and summative program evaluation, including basic practices and techniques of evaluation research design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation and communication of results to promote legitimate use. Major course emphasis is on student design of a field-based evaluation targeted to a specific local campus or community program of need.
This course focuses on evaluation implementation, specifically the implementation of the campus or community evaluation proposal students designed in Program Evaluation I. The overriding theme of this course will be utilization-focused evaluation theory and its application to promote more effective evaluation field work, client relations, and methodologically sound evaluation promoting to legitimate, instrumental, conceptual, and process use.
Review of common designs utilized in program evaluations. Data collection methods such as surveys, assessments, interviews, focus groups, and observations will be discussed.
This course focuses on ways to disseminate evaluation results to clients. Creating data visualizations, creating infographics, writing executive summaries, writing evaluation reports, and presenting evaluation results will be discussed. Students will work with real evaluation data to create visualizations, reports, and presentations.
