Program Monitoring

Question #1. Program monitoring enables researchers and evaluators to obtain a clear depiction of the function for a particular program. “Monitoring frequently includes a review of a program’s policy and procedures manual and comparing that plan to actual program implementation. “Thereby making the plan more comprehensive in nature while ensuring compatibility with the stated mission and goals statements of the employing agency or funding source (class powerpoint week 8, chapter 7).” In addition, to determining the actual focus of outcome monitoring of program participants. It includes the continuous gathering of qualitative data, which required to understand the needs of stakeholders and the requirements of its funding source. “However, quantified data do not reveal very much about the day-to-day operation of a program (Posavac, p. 220).” Monitoring allows evaluators to discover ways that stakeholders may improve the delivery of its services in a cost effective manner. However, the use of on-site observers may result in the resultant findings being skewed in cases where the observer possessed either a personal or professional bias toward the subject. The danger of using untrained on-site observers is exemplified in a New York Times story regarding public school teachers being dismissed after negative reviews by on-site observers.( Hu, 2012). order to transmit your findings to stakeholders and program participants alike on a level that each may understand.

“An output evaluation seeks to determine the immediate or direct effects of the program. As the mission of summative programs is to effect, a positive change in the life (lives) of program participants the monitoring of such a program would be indicative of seekin...

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