Suiter Sarah V, Thurber Amie, Sullivan Clare
Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2016;10(4):551-558. doi: 10.1353/cpr.2016.0063.
The development, implementation, and assessment of a masters-level program evaluation course designed to train future and current leaders of community-based organizations (CBOs) is described.
In addition to sending students "out" into the community, staff from local community organizations were invited "in" to the classroom to take the course alongside students. Community partners selected a specific evaluation need within their organization that teams could address. The "final" for the course involved creating a comprehensive evaluation plan for each organization to implement.
Student course evaluations and semistructured interviews with community partners were conducted and analyzed to assess how course goals were met.Results/Lessons Learned: The course goals were met, the partnering experience was highly valued, and insightful improvements were suggested.
This program evaluation course provides an innovative, effective, flexible, and replicable partnership practice model that builds student skills and community capacity in evaluation research.
描述一个硕士水平的项目评估课程的开发、实施和评估，该课程旨在培养社区组织（CBO）未来和现任领导者。
除了将学生“派往”社区外，还邀请当地社区组织的工作人员“走进”课堂，与学生一起参加课程。社区合作伙伴在其组织内选择了一个团队可以解决的特定评估需求。该课程的“期末考试”要求为每个组织制定一份全面的评估计划以供实施。
进行并分析了学生课程评估以及与社区合作伙伴的半结构化访谈，以评估课程目标的达成情况。结果/经验教训：课程目标得以实现，合作体验受到高度重视，并提出了富有洞察力的改进建议。
该项目评估课程提供了一种创新、有效、灵活且可复制的合作实践模式，能够培养学生在评估研究方面的技能以及社区能力。
