Program Evaluation

Program evaluation is the practical craft of judging whether human-services interventions, social, educational, training, or organizational, actually do what they claim, and this course teaches you to design and defend those judgments rather than rely on intuition or institutional habit. You'll work through Posavac's framework alongside quizzes, two midterms, and a semester project that walks you through planning an evaluation, picking criteria, choosing experimental or quasi-experimental designs, and writing a report someone might actually use. It sits at the applied end of the psychology curriculum, bridging research-methods training with the kind of stakeholder-facing work you'd do in NGOs, public policy, HR, or any setting where programs need to justify their existence with evidence.