| Session Title: Implementing Process Evaluation in a Dispersed State Program |
| Demonstration Session 585 to be held in D'Alesandro Room on Friday, November 9, 11:15 AM to 12:00 PM |
| Sponsored by the Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Richard Bowman, University of Arizona, rbowman@email.arizona.edu |
| Michele Walsh, University of Arizona, mwalsh@u.arizona.edu |
| Abstract: Implementing process evaluation measures involves a wide variety of stakeholders, and requires strategic compromises. The demonstration will use our experience over the last three years with the Arizona Tobacco Education and Prevention Program to highlight several critical issues - balancing the needs of evaluation and program monitoring, and the needs of central administrators and local service delivery staff - and will outline the steps required to build an organization-wide data system. - Selling the Idea of Process Evaluation - Constructing and Piloting the Instruments - Implementing the Systems - Using the Data The delivered process evaluation system involves an "event report" that is submitted by all providers of services via a web-based tool that makes systematic and continuous program assessment and feedback feasible and effective. |