This study aimed to detail and analyse the design, evaluation outcomes of leisure education programs. Each program was designed for a particular population with specific set components, principles goals. Some techniques were identified as useful assist deliverers in effectively providing these services (e.g. contents, deliverers, delivery methods, settings duration), which are essential aspects...

Evolutionary theory, developmental systems theory, and evolutionary epistemology provide deep theoretical foundations for understanding programs, their development over time, and the role of evaluation. This paper relates core concepts from these powerful bodies of theory to program evaluation. Evolutionary Evaluation is operationalized in terms of program and evaluation evolutionary phases, wh...

Stricto Sensu Graduate Nursing Programs in Brazil experienced innovations and achievements in 2017, both in terms of process plan and product of evaluation. Pioneerism with the interval of evaluation extended from three to four years, and the record and collection of data of the Programs through an online Platform open to the community, conferring agility and transparency to the process, are so...

To help inform the evaluation design for CalMHSA's suicide prevention (SP) and early intervention initiatives, a review of program evaluation literature was done to assess program effectiveness and identify previously used evaluation methodologies. Using evidence from the literature review, the authors provide an overview of the epidemiology of suicides and of non-fatal self-inflicted injuries ...

Most evolutionary optimization models incorporate a fitness evaluation that is based on a predefined static set of test cases or problems. In the natural evolutionary process, selection is of course not based on a static fitness evaluation. Organisms do not have to combat every existing disease during their lifespan; organisms of one species may live in different or changing environments; diffe...

AbstractHealth economic evaluation research plays an important role in selecting cost-effective interventions. The purpose of this study was to assess the quality of published articles in Iranian journals related to economic evaluation in health care programs based on Drummond’s checklist in terms of numbers, features, and quality. In the present review study, published articles (Persian and En...

This paper describes a method of supporting teachers ’ evaluation work of students ’ programs. In programming education, programming exercise courses play an important role, because writing programs is indispensable to learning programming. In programming exercise classes, however, the teacher’s loads of evaluation tend to be very heavy because the teacher has to read so many programs and repor...

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This chapter situates the evaluation of technologybased programs in the context of the field of general educational program evaluation. It begins with an overview of the main evaluation approaches developed for general educational programs, including Tyler’s early conception of assessing attainment of program objectives, decision-making approaches, naturalistic evaluation, and Kirkpatrick’s fou...