Essential Skills Series  

Keep an eye out for the next Essential Skills Series to be offered by the CES-Ontario Chapter in November 2010.  This series will be advertised on this page approximately 6 weeks prior to the scheduled date.

For more information about the Essential Skills Series, scroll down this page. 

 

Past Essential Skills Series:

The last Essential Skills Series was offered in July 5 - 8, 2010 at Queen's Park, Toronto. 

Dates: July 5, 6, 7, & 8, 2010

Facilitators: Dr. Arnold Love                  

                     Dr. Paul Favaro

Registration: 8:30 am    

Course: 9:00 to 4:30 pm

Location: Queen’s Park, 900 Bay St., Toronto

                 2nd Floor Macdonald Block

For more workshop and registration information from the July 2010 Series, click here.

About Essential Skills Series

If you are:

  • A newly appointed evaluation or program review officer
  • Responsible for managing evaluation projects within your organizations
  • Looking for an introduction or a refresher on the main concepts and issues in program evaluation

Then the Essential Skills Series is for you. Attend a fantastic introduction to evaluation concepts and methods rolled into a four day series of workshops. The workshops are led by experienced evaluators in the field. Pick and choose a workshop or come to all of them.

The workshops are designed by the Canadian Evaluation Society to enhance program evaluation skills and promote the professional practice of evaluation across Canada. The workshops provide opportunities for group exercises and discussion. Participant workbooks are provided for each workshop.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS SERIES WORKSHOPS:

Understanding Program Evaluation
Building an Evaluation Framework
Improving Program Performance
Evaluating for Results

Workshop

Content

Understanding Program Evaluation

  • Terms and concepts used by evaluators
  • Trends in evaluation
  • Benefits and uses of program evaluation
  • The relationships between planning, management and evaluation
  • Major models and types of evaluation
  • Evaluation Standards of Practice
  • How to make evaluations ethical & fair

top

Building an Evaluation Framework

  • Considerations when developing an evaluation framework
  • Basic steps for planning an evaluation
  • Methods for needs assessments
  • Methods for evaluability assessments

top

Improving Program Performance

  • Terms/concepts in process evaluation
  • Key aspects of program performance
  • Program monitoring strategies
  • Data collection techniques

top

Evaluating for Results

  • Measures of program outcomes
  • Outcome monitoring systems
  • Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness methods
  • Effectively communicating results
  • Enhancing evaluation utilization

top

 

Check out our Workshops page also for professional development opportunities.

Past Essential Skills Series:

  • July 5-8, 2010.
  • November 23-26, 2009.
  • July 13, 14, 20 & 21, 2009.
  • November 24-27, 2008.
  • May 26-29, 2008.
  • November 26-29, 2007.
  • May 14-17, 2007.