Public Health Approach to Evaluating School Safety Initiatives

Training Series

In this self-paced training, Dr. Justin Heinze will provide an introduction to evaluation in the field of Public Health. This training will focus on the following aspects of evaluation:

• Program Evaluation
• Process/Formative Evaluation
• Impact/Summative Evaluation
• Evaluation Planning

This introductory training will help you to start thinking about evaluation as you implement school safety programming, ensuring that you set the proper foundation for your researcher.

Learning Objectives

1. Define the key components of effective program evaluation.
2. Describe the benefits of program evaluation.
3. Distinguish between process/formative evaluation and impact/summative evaluation.
4. Identify the elements of an evaluation plan.
5. Describe the connection between an evaluation plan and the original proposal.

Continuing Education Credit

This self-paced training is offered for an NCSS certificate of completion.