Length: 3 hours
Audience: All employees, specifically of interest to Program Planners/Policy Practitioners/Analysts/Evaluators
Facilitators: Alaina Roach O'Keefe and Chelsea Whitty
Date: Thursday, March 26th, 2026 at 9:00 a.m.
Location: Sage Room, 40C Burns Avenue, Charlottetown
Program evaluation is the systematic gathering, analysis and reporting of data about a program to assist in decision-making about ways to improve the program and how best to use resources. In practice, this work spans a continuum, from more simple performance monitoring activities to comprehensive formal evaluation studies. This workshop explores that continuum and helps participants determine how to “right-size” evaluation activities based on context, purpose and decision requirements.
Objectives:
- Learn how to view evaluation as a continuum of approaches - from performance monitoring and program assessment through to formal evaluation.
- Build confidence in developing and implementing right-sized evaluation and performance monitoring activities.
- Learn how to use different evaluation-related activities for different decision needs and when each is appropriate.
Applications in the Workplace:
- Introduction to basic terms and concepts of program evaluation
- Identify major benefits and uses of program evaluation
- Understanding the relationship between planning, management and evaluation
- Review major models of evaluation
- Develop an understanding of evaluation frameworks
- Demonstrating impact of program(s)
