Cover Page (consult an APA style guide)
• Abstract (no more than 1 page, gives a brief overview of the contents of your paper, the abstract is written last after you have completed your entire paper)
• Introduction (2-3 pages in length)
O Include your thesis statement in first or second paragraph.
o Describe or summarize the policy or program which you intend to evaluate.
o What are the goals or desired outcomes of the policy or program?
o Why are the goals or outcomes important?
o Include your research questions at the end of the introduction.
• Literature Review (3-5 pages in length)
o This section of your paper corresponds directly to your research questions. Each question should be reflected in sub-headings in your literature review. If you don’t have a research question about “it” don’t include “it” in your paper.
o How have other researchers attempted to evaluate the policy or program? What were their conclusions? What might be replicated in your evaluation?
o What theory or theories connect the policy or program to its goals or desired outcomes?
• Methodology (2-4 pages in length, this is how you are going to evaluate this program/policy in the future)
O Of all the evaluation techniques you have learned in the course which one will you use to evaluate your policy or program?
o Is an experimental design relevant to your evaluation? If so, how? What form? If not, why not?
o Is your evaluation a process evaluation or an outcome evaluation? Why? How?
o What are the principal components of your evaluation design?
o Study Variables
▪ Name your dependent, independent, and control variables.
o Data Collection
▪ Name your unit(s) of analysis.
▪ How do you propose to measure the factors, variables, goals, or outcomes which are relevant to your evaluation?
▪ What are the advantages and disadvantages of your proposed measures?
o Sampling and Survey Instruments
▪ What are the principal sources of data and information which you propose to employ?
▪ What are the advantages and disadvantages of your proposed sources?
o Data Analysis
▪ How do you propose to analyze and to interpret the data and information which you collect? In other words, how will your analysis and/or interpretation show that the policy or program goals or outcomes have or have not been achieved?
• Conclusion (2-3 pages in length)
O Analyze what you have learned and inform the reader.
o What policy or programmatic recommendations might emerge from your evaluation?
• References (must be in APA style, not all citation generation programs will produce a correct APA reference page, you must double check)
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