Evaluation 101: Evaluating Campus Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention Programs

The Higher Education Center convened two training institutes during the U.S. Department of Education’s National Meeting on October 20, 2010.

Evaluating alcohol and other drug abuse and violence (AODV) prevention efforts assists in determining if chosen strategies are achieving anticipated goals. While getting started may seem daunting, an effective and feasible approach is viewing evaluation as an iterative process that is coupled with program development. This approach can make it easier for practitioners to incorporate evaluation into program implementation.

This training institute looked at the five steps of the evaluation process: (1) describing the intervention, (2) identifying process measures, (3) identifying outcome measures, (4) selecting a research design, and (5) utilizing the results. Developing a logic model to guide the evaluation will also be discussed.

Learning Objectives:
At the end of the training institute, participants should be able to:

1. Understand the importance of evaluating AODV prevention efforts.
2. Integrate evaluation into the overall program planning and implementation process.
3. Develop an evaluation plan for their campus AODV prevention efforts.
4. Access Higher Education Center products and services to assist in evaluating AODV prevention efforts.

Faculty:

• Lance Segars, PhD, Senior Evaluation Consultant, Higher Education Center
• Peggy Glider, PhD, Coordinator for Evaluation and Research, Campus Health Service, University of Arizona