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Types of Program Evaluation

There are many types of policy and program evaluations. There are variations in terminology, but the major types of evaluation typically involve the following: a) determining the need and requirement for a program; b) assessing whether a program is working the way it is supposed to work; and c) the impact of the program on the larger environment, both short and long term. For this Discussion, review this week’s Learning Resources and select a case involving physical infrastructure or economic development.

Post by Day 3 a brief description of the project and explain the type of evaluation employed in the case. Explain whether this was a needs assessment, formative, process, or summative (impact) evaluation and why. Describe the type of data used and whether comparisons were employed.

Respond by Day 5 to two colleagues in the following ways:

  • What, in your opinion, was the problem the evaluation was designed to address?
  • Does the type of evaluation depend on the manner in which the problem is defined? Explain.

Prepare two comments to say to students

Assignment

Evaluability Assessment

Evaluability assessment, sometimes referred to as exploratory evaluation, is often conducted as a preliminary activity prior to conducting a formal evaluation. It is commonly used as a planning tool and is a quick and cost effective method to determine whether programs identified as candidates for evaluation have the objectives, activities, and resources that will facilitate a formal evaluation. It is not a substitute for a program evaluation that can determine whether the program is likely to be effective in its current form or whether changes and adjustments may need to be made. (Leviton, Khan, Rog, Dawkins & Cotton, 2010).

For example, the recidivism rate, the extent to which a criminal relapses back into criminal behavior, is a major measure of the effectiveness of criminal justice programs. The Second Chance Act of 2008 is a federal program designed to reduce recidivism in local communities. Grant funds from the Department of Justice were distributed to state, local governments, and nonprofits to develop appropriate programs.

To prepare for this Assignment, review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the evaluability of a funding effort. Access the Second Chance Act website and examine the success stories, focusing on the Roca, Inc. case.

Submit by Day 7 a 2- to 3-page paper which assesses the evaluability of this program, using the criteria in the readings for this week and indicates whether you anticipate that a formative, process, needs assessment, or summative evaluation will be most appropriate. Explain your reasoning.

 
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W2 Lab 2

IT Risk Management Plan

Every company needs to take risks to thrive, but not too much risk which could be catastrophic. Finding the balanced amount of risk requires identifying what opportunities (or threats) are present, understanding how significant each of them is, recognizing what action to take to smartly handle both opportunities and risks, and lastly, monitoring all of the above, including discovering more prospects and threats. All told, this is called risk management. Specific to the seven domains of the IT infrastructure, this lab will cover IT risk management.

In this lab, you will define the purpose of an IT risk management plan, you will define the scope for an IT risk management plan that encompasses the seven domains of a typical IT infrastructure, you will relate the risks, threats, and vulnerabilities to the plan, and you will create an IT risk management plan outline that incorporates the five major parts of an IT risk management process.

Learning Objectives

Upon completing this lab, you will be able to:

Define the purpose and objectives of an IT risk management plan.

Define the scope and boundary for an IT risk management plan to encompass the seven domains of a typical IT infrastructure.

Relate identified risks, threats, and vulnerabilities to an IT risk management plan and risk areas.

Incorporate the five major parts of an IT risk management process into a risk management plan’s outline.

Craft an outline for an IT risk management plan, which includes the seven domains of a typical IT infrastructure and the five major parts of risk management and risk areas.

Deliverables

Upon completion of this lab, you are required to provide the following deliverables to your instructor:

1. Lab Report file;

2. Lab Assessments file.

Click here to view your lab rubric.

 
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Unit VI Case Study ( Must pass SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service through CSU)

Read the following scenario, and answer the questions following each section:

The Dosit Corporation is a chemical manufacturer, and its products are sold to other manufacturers and used in household cleaning products. The company has 290 employees with about 220 involved in the production process, 30 working as maintenance personnel, and the remainder in clerical, sales, engineering, and senior management positions.

BOS 3125, Hazardous Materials Management 3

The company has never had a safety manager before it recently hiring you. The company president instructed you to find out what is wrong regarding safety and health and then to fix it. Several binders and files have been given to you with the explanation that they are the existing safety policies and records. Looking through one folder, you find a chemical inventory list from two years ago that included 780 chemicals. You find no records of hazard communication training, and the existing written program is very minimal and inadequate. You also look at the MSDS/SDS files and find considerably fewer than 780 MSDS/SDSs.

Question 1. What steps should you take to bring the company into compliance with the HCS considering best practices?

You went on a tour of your company’s chemical processing area with the production foreman. As with any such operations, there are pipes going everywhere and numerous tanks. You noticed that few of the pipes and none of the tanks have visible labels indicating what is in the tanks or pipes.

Question 2a. Is this a problem from a safety or regulatory point of view? Why?

Question 2b. What would be your recommendation on labeling considering the regulatory requirements?

You have just finished training the entire workforce about chemical hazards. The training was not well received by the workforce, and they generally appeared to be bored; end-of-class quizzes indicated that they did not really grasp the essential information. You do not understand how this could be because you carefully went over the MSDS/SDS for each chemical that a given group of workers were potentially exposed to and explained in detail the precautions they needed to take.

Question 3a. What most likely went wrong in this training?

Question 3b. How could future training be improved, including the explanation of chemical hazards without specifically addressing each chemical?

During the inventory, you find a quart can of a chemical with a label in the maintenance shop. You find out that the shop personnel only use it occasionally and for unfreezing rusted bolts. They do not seem to know anything about the chemical’s potential hazards, and the wording on the container is not totally legible, so you are not sure what the hazards are either.

Question 4a. How would find out about the proper use, storage, and disposal of this chemical?

Question 4b. How would you identify the chemical as hazardous, or as not hazardous?

During an inventory, you come across an unlabeled five-gallon container of a chemical on which someone has written a chemical name.

Question 5. What should you do, if anything, about this container?

Use complete sentences when formulating your responses, and use APA format when writing your responses. Your paper must be a minimum of two pages in length, not including title and reference pages. Provide examples in your discussions, and support your answers with appropriate references and in-text citations.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

 
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We will be discussing atmosphere and weather in Modules 6 and 7. Choose a weather anomaly, such as El Nino and La Nina, climate change, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, heat waves, ice storms, or other. Be sure to define them, compare them to normal conditions and discuss the consequences of each. Include the economic impact damage to the Earth, and any long term consequences. If applicable, include the way that volcanoes, meteorite impacts, ice cap size fluctuation, or nuclear explosions might change them as well.

Your final paper should meet the following requirements:

 
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