Evaluation and Performance Management
Short course and microcredential
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This course currently has no scheduled dates. To express interest in this course or to discuss bespoke options for yourself or your organisation, please submit anÌýexpression of interestÌýor contact the Short Courses Team on +61 2 5114 5573 or shortcourses.cbr@unsw.edu.au
2 day short course held across multiple weeks. Participants completing the microcredential will be required to submit an assessment 4 week after short course completion.Ìý
In-person
»Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ Canberra City Campus
$2200.00
Ìý
$2850.00
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Overview
Learn how to improve your organisations performance through effective evaluation. Designed for those working in and around the public sector, this introductory course examines the core aspects of implementing effective evaluation practices. This includes the use of program theories in evaluation and change processes, evidence types and their uses, and data collection approaches.
On completion of this course, you’ll have skills in designing and analysing data to create formative and summative evaluations, and in designing data collections to monitor program implementation and identifying risks.
Expand your learning with a MicrocredentialÌý
Take your evaluation and performance expertise further by continuing on to complete a microcredential. This next step allows you to consolidate your learning through a final assessment.Ìý Upon completion, you’ll earn 2 units of credit (UoC), which can be used toward postgraduate study through approved articulation pathways.
Assessment are due 4 weeks after the short course completion.Ìý
Course content
This course is broken into the following core learning topics:
- Program theories in public service evaluation and change processes.
- Types of available evidence and the context they should be used.
- Qualitative and quantitative approaches to data collection including focus groups, interviews, surveys and participatory research.
- Program monitoring and risk identification.ÌýÌý
Learning outcomes
By completing this course, you will:
- Understand how to create more effective evaluations.
- Apply program theories of change to improve evaluation efficacy.
- Develop skills to integrate evaluation earlier in program implementation and to commission evaluations with more confidence.
Course delivery
The short course and microcredential will be delivered over an 8 week period including:
Week 1:
- Pre-work for short course day 1 (approx 2 hours)
Week 2:
- Short course day 1
Week 3:
- Reflection and pre-work for short course day 2 (approx 5 hours)Ìý
Week 4:
- Short course day 2
Microcredential participants only
- Assessment set up
Weeks 5 - 7Ìý
- Self-paced assessment preparation
Week 8Ìý
- Final assessment due for marking.
Who should attend
This course is for those working in and around the public sector, at all levels of government, who have, or want to have, responsibility for improving organisational performance through improved evaluation.
Prerequisites:Ìý
None
Facilitators
Prof Deborah Blackman
Professor Deborah Blackman is the Associate Dean, Lifelong Learning at »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ Canberra.
Her research interests include Public Sector Policy Implementation, Systems Level Change, Employee Performance Management, Organisational Learning and Organisational Effectiveness.
She researches knowledge transfer in a range of applied, real world contexts. The common theme of her work is developing effective knowledge acquisition and transfer to improve organisational effectiveness.Ìý
Prof Helen Dickinson
Helen Dickinson is Professor of Public Service Research in the School of Business at »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ, Canberra.Ìý
Her expertise is in public services, particularly in relation topics such as governance, policy implementation and stewardship of 4th industrial revolution technologies.Ìý Helen has published twenty books and over one hundred and thirty peer-reviewed journal articles on these topics and is also a frequent commentator within the mainstream media.Ìý
In 2015 Helen was made a Victorian Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration AustraliaÌýand in 2019 awarded a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.Ìý In 2021 Helen was named one of Apolitical’s 100 most influential academics in government. She has worked with a range of different levels of government, community organisations and private organisations in Australia, UK, New Zealand and Europe on research and consultancy programmes.Ìý
Cancellation policy
Courses will be held subject to sufficient registrations. »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ Canberra reserves the right to cancel a course up to five working days prior to commencement of the course. If a course is cancelled, you will have the opportunity to transfer your registration or be issued a full refund. If registrant cancels within 10 days of course commencement, a 50% registration fee will apply. »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ Canberra is a registered ACT provider under ESOS Act 2000-CRICOS provider Code 00098G.