Spring 2027

Transformative Evaluation in Practice

A graduate course where students develop, conduct, and lead participatory program evaluations using a transformative lens, emphasizing collaborative strategies to build evaluation capacity and improve the use of findings through projects.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Spring 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.93 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Use terminology and apply concepts common to transformative evaluation practice;

  • Build skills to create effective and equitable partnerships with community organizations that want to evaluate program(s) or services;

  • Develop capacity to assess an evaluation’s context and determine an approach and design for the evaluation using a transformative lens;

  • Apply program evaluation standards and ethical guidelines in the development, design, conduct and reporting of an evaluation;

  • Appropriately select and utilize qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods approaches to collect and analyze data; and

  • Acquire skills and tools to effectively communicate with and engage stakeholders throughout the evaluation process.

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CSCS 813

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  • Graduate/professional standing

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Spring 2027

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Spring 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.93 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Professional standards, ethical practice, stakeholder engagement, power dynamics, evaluation theory, mixed methods, developmental/collective approaches, and systems thinking
  • Applied projects with community organizations, voluntary associations, or foundations focused on civil and just society

Skills

  • Apply transformative evaluation concepts and terminology
  • Create equitable partnerships with community organizations for evaluation
  • Assess evaluation context and design approaches using a transformative lens
  • Apply evaluation standards and ethical guidelines
  • Select and use qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods for data collection and analysis
  • Communicate with and engage stakeholders during evaluation

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CSCS 813 · Spring 2027

Transformative Evaluation in Practice

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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