Program Overview

Program Evaluation Online Graduate Certificate

The Program Evaluation Online Graduate Certificate is designed to equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to gather and summarize large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data, using the data to answer key questions. The program highlights include:

• Quality Matters Certified: The program has partnered with Quality Matters to improve course design, make it easy for students to navigate, reduce barriers to student achievement, and ultimately result in better outcomes. Every course offered has the Gold Standard Quality Matters Certification.
• Rigorous content delivered by content experts: Each faculty member is a content expert and active player in their particular field, with PhD-level instructors who have published extensively and currently work in education psychology, measurement, evaluation, research design, and/or assessment fields.
• Interactive environment using VoiceThread and Blackboard: Students participate in online discussion forums using VoiceThread, an innovative collaboration and sharing platform, and HuskyCT, UConn's learning management system built on Blackboard, to promote collaboration.
• One community of students: Students move through the courses with the same cohort of students and have many opportunities to get to know them throughout the year.
• Real-world project to showcase skills: The program focuses on practical application, with students learning with example cases throughout their research methods course and the first program evaluation course, and working closely with their instructor and cohort to identify an actual client and design an evaluation proposal.

About the Program

The role of program evaluation has gained increasing importance since the 1940s, with evaluations commissioned for programs that use public funding for oversight and accountability purposes. The program aims to provide students with the skills and knowledge necessary to render judgment about a program's effectiveness and inform ongoing program development.

Program Details

• The program is designed to provide students with competency in the most current theoretical knowledge, methods, and guiding principles.
• Faculty members share their practical experiences, presenting real-life challenges and actual solutions for tackling those challenges.
• Students will gain skills in translating data into meaningful findings for different constituents.
• The program includes a real-world project, where students implement their proposed program evaluation, from collecting and analyzing data to writing a report and presenting findings to their client.

Courses

The program includes the following courses:

• EPSY6621: Program Evaluation
• EPSY6623: Advanced Program Evaluation
• EPSY5195: Program Evaluation Practicum

Faculty

The faculty members are content experts and active players in their particular fields, with PhD-level instructors who have published extensively and currently work in education psychology, measurement, evaluation, research design, and/or assessment fields.

Program Fees

The program fees are not specified in the provided context.

Who Should Apply

The program is designed for individuals who want to gain skills and knowledge in program evaluation, including those working in education, government, non-profit, and private sectors.

Admissions

The admissions criteria are not specified in the provided context.

Testimonials

The program has received positive testimonials from students, with one student noting that the program provided a "rich collaborative experience."