UM SPH Academic Courses

HBEHED622 Program Evaluation in Health Education

Fall term(s)
3 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s): Janevic, Mary
Offered every year
Last offered Fall, 2010
Prerequisites: Biostat 503 or equiv. and a course dealing with health education program development
Description: Examination and application, through a series of exercises, of several program evaluation models relevant for health education, including the goal attainment, goal-free, systems responsive, and decision-theoretic models, with emphasis on both process and impact analysis. Design options for measuring program effect, with the associated threats and external validity, are discussed, and several basic statistical techniques are reviewed and examined in terms of their applicability to program evaluation, including sampling and sample size determination for both surveys and experiments.