FIU Measurement and Establishing Measurable Items Discussions – Description
Initial Post
Measurement and establishing measurable items is an important part of program evaluation. It’s often an underdeveloped part of program evaluation. Think about your own agency (His House) and discuss one item, or point, that you think would be important in program evaluation. What data are important for review and how is the data measured? Discuss what the measure means in your agency. What is acceptable and unacceptable and why? For example, consider how much of a social worker’s time involves clients not attending scheduled appointments (also known as a no-show rate). The data to be reviewed in this example is the number of unattended appointments compared to the number of total appointments. The measure, in this example, is the number of unique appointment slots. The average no show rate for most mental health services is 25%. Most agencies set target goals for no show rates to be much lower than 25% and spend a good deal of time thinking different ways to reduce the no show rate.
Response Post
Respond to the initial posts of at least two classmates.
Suppose you are invited to be a paid professional consultant to your classmate on the program evaluation team working on the point presented. Discuss what the goal measure might be and changes you suggest to help move the measure from the current mark to the goal mark. Do some research here to explore the issue and how others have targeted moving the goal in order to achieve change. Use references to support your ideas.
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