Assignment #3: Evaluation Assessment

Program Under Evaluation

Hague High School Student’s Representative Council (HHSRC).  

Note this is an ongoing program with significant overlap from year to year.  There is no before and no ‘end date’ making signposts of success or achievement difficult to identify.

Purpose

To help participants, staff and the student body:

a) understand the strengths of the program

b) improve the program

Users will include the SRC supervisors and council members who will use the evaluation to oversea identified goals over an extended period (supervisors) and view the strengths and weaknesses of the program to better achieve identified targets (SRC members).

Questions the Evaluation Seeks to Answer

• What impact does the program have on participants, the school and the community?
• Is the student body satisfied with what they gain from the program? 
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of the program?
• What activities contribute most? Least?
• How well does the program respond to initiating need?
• Does the program meet the objectives outlined in their constitution
• What does the program consist of – activities, events?
• Does everyone benefit from the program?  Who most – who is left out?
• What in the socio-economic-political environment inhibits or contributes to the program’s succes?
• What are the characteristics of the target population (student body)?
• What changes do people see as possible or important?

(Many questions taken from “Planning an Evaluation”, p. 5)

Information Required 

Wish to Know	Indicators
Are activites successfully organised and coordinated?	SRC plans activities participated in by the student bodyStudent body has positive reaction to activities, either through observed participation or survey/interview responses
Are SRC members developing leadership skills?	Growth between initial SRC ‘retreat’ and current participation in council and activities
Is the promotion of school spirit successful?	Participation in planned/unplanned activitiesPositive language use observed in discussion of school

Information Sources

• HHSSRC Constitution
• Meeting minutes
• SRC financial statements
• SRC members (names cannot be published)
• Vice Principal and official SRC supervisor B.B.

Data Methodology

• Survey
• Interview
• Observation
• Focus Group

Video will be used to record data where possible.

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Surveys will be distributed on paper due to the ‘offline’ nature of this demographic.

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Participants representing the ‘student body’ will be composed of a random sampling.  3 students from each grade (3 x 6 = 24) will be chosen at random to participate in interviews and focus groups.

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Data Analysis

Data will be interpreted by myself and B.B., VP of Hague High.  Hopefully, the additional view will offer balance to the analysis.

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Evaluation Sharing

To Whom	When/Where/How
SRC	At the Tuesday SRC meeting through a verbal presentation supported with visual (ppt) documentation and analysis.
Staff	At the Monday staff meeting meeting through a verbal presentation supported with visual (ppt) documentation and analysis
Adminstration	Written report submission + 1:1 discussion.

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Questions which require answering

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• Define ‘school spirit’.  What is it? What does it look like?
• Identify ‘statistical techniques’ for data analysis.
• Research ‘how to analysize narrative data’.