I’m stuck on a Social Science question and need an explanation.

Your Final Project for this course is an evaluation plan. An evaluation plan outlines what you intend to monitor or measure and how, along with a plan on how your results will improve the program itself or decision making regarding it. By this time, you have explored different types of evaluation, explored academic discourse, and researched leaders in the field, so it should be apparent how varied program evaluation applications can be. For this reason, there is no prescribed layout or specific list of required components that need to be in your plan. Rather, you are encouraged to use the Shakman and Rodriguez (2015) and CDC (2011) documents in this week’s Learning Resources, along with other resources of your choosing, to craft an appropriate plan for your assessment needs and interest area.

You can create the plan for an existing program in your professional life or you can locate a published program description and work from that premise. Note that the project is to write a plan, not to execute on the plan. This means that the project is a planning exercise that will permit you to explore the ideas around evaluation methodologies, analysis of outcomes, and best practices for writing and reporting. As your research and class discussions have demonstrated across the quarter, there are a wide variety of approaches to evaluation. You will use your judgment as to which approaches will work for you—and as a scholar you will know about the rest.