How does your organisation measure the effectiveness of its programmes? Why is this important?
There are many ways to measure the effectiveness of its programmes; one of the most commonly used in Shuqun Primary is Surveys or Feedback.
This is the concept of effectiveness of the programmes. According to Devon and his staff, they have a research that by having a hierarchy of organisational mission and purpose which will come then produce a macro goals and objective and lastly formed the micro goals and objectives.
It started off with Shuqun’s philosophy, mission and purpose which it is to enable exploration with experiential learning through outdoor lesson. Next we have different programmes for different level of students to learn and explore. The larger program of goals and objectives of Shuqun is to create a leader or star in every Shuqun students with knowledge, skills and values to make a positive contribution back to human process. Finally the micro goals and objectives of each individual programmes or camps that attributes back to mission and larger program and goals.
There are 3 different evaluations that can be done, goal based evaluation and process evaluation and outcomes – based evaluation. For Shuqun Primary, we usually do outcomes – based evaluation. This is because we need to identify the major outcomes that we want to examine or verify for the program and to reflect if it link back to the mission and that if the program impacts the pupils.
Although by doing questionnaires, surveys and checklists have it disadvantages; it at least allows us quickly and/or easily gets lots of information from people in a non-threatening way. Pupils are too young to understand the concept of the surveys and that they tend to get confuse if are to do other methods so by doing questionnaire at least they can choose and easily get the non-biased feedback.
According to a research done by the free management library of North Minneapolis, Minnesota, these are the challenges that are expected to face when using questionnaire as the resource of evaluating. The feedback might not be clearly identify, the wording can be bias to client’s response, they can be not personal and that in the surveys, may need sampling experts and most of the time it is hard to get the full story.
After having the surveys/checklists and questionnaires being done up, collating of the data and coming with the statistic will help the school in understanding if the program have achieve the micro goals and objectives. If the micro goals and objectives have been achieved, it will then go into the macro goals and objectives which finally will result in the organisational mission and purpose. The school’s methodology differs from most of the schools which also the main key reason to why evaluating of such program is important.
By doing evaluating, we can check if the methodology that we uses on our pupils work or not. This will then ensure that our pupils are achieving to their full potential if our methodology works and if it does not work, our pupils will not be able to do their fullest. Evaluating will help us to keep in check if the program are fulfilling the macro program goals and objectives and lastly to satisfy Shuqun’s philosophy.
In conclusion, Shuqun’s way of evaluating could result in bias response but the possibility is low therefore resulting that the method is successful in indicating if the program is fulfilling to the organisational philosophy.
Resources:
Martin, Bruce. "Outdoor leadership: theory and practice - Google Books." Google Books. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Apr. 2011. <http://books.google.com.sg/books?id=D4ewmFjesOcC&pg=PA226&lpg=PA226&dq=how+to+evaluate+outdoor+adventure+learning&source=bl&ots=iVu6j4rSqj&sig=Uepf5_e4skT7NI0W1uSVQnXb7u4&hl=en&ei=qN2TTYLSMcLMcMrg1aUH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFgQ6AEwC>
evaluation, the, and the more efficient you can be in your evaluation. "Basic Guide to Program Evaluation (Including Many Additional Resources)." Free Management Library (SM). N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Apr. 2011. <http://managementhelp.org/evaluatn/fnl_eval.htm>.
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