Session 1: The Goals of Evaluation
Through interactive exercises, you explore your organizational goals and those of your colleagues, and discuss the contribution that evaluation can make to achieving those goals.
Session 2: Systematic Evaluation
In this session, you work to define evaluation, and explore the reasons why evaluation is often neglected. The faculty introduces a framework for systematic evaluation that meets the unique needs of arts and cultural organizations.
Session 3: Organizational Learning and Evaluation
You dig further into the logic of evaluation, and explore the connection between evaluation and a learning organization. Discussion and team-based exercises help you identify your critical evaluative questions.
Session 4: Defining an Evaluation Plan
Building on the earlier sessions, you define an overall process for highly effective evaluation, and outline your own evaluation plan.

Session 1: Focusing an Evaluation
The faculty leads a class discussion that digs deeply into the political nature of evaluation in recent years. You then use this context to focus your own evaluation efforts on a clear purpose and set of stakeholders.
Session 2: Designing and Implementing an Evaluation
You discuss and evaluate data collection methods, with additional exploration of how to design effective surveys (given how often surveys are used in the arts and culture sector).
Session 3: Survey Design, Data Collection, and Analysis
The discussion of survey designs continues in this session. A lecture and team-based activities are used to explore data-analysis approaches.
Session 4: Reporting Evaluation Findings
Effective evaluation helps create a learning organization and helps strengthen relationships with stakeholders. You wrap up this two-day seminar by exploring various communicating and reporting strategies, and develop a reporting plan for your organization's evaluation.