Assignment: TERM PAPER
Using the Bachman & Schutt (2015) Logic Model provided, write a six page program evaluation paper titled,"How to Evaluate an Early Head Start Program in the United States." The cover page and reference page are not included in the six pages.
Early Head Start is a comprehensive program that focuses on enhancing children's development while providing educational opportunities. In your paper, assume that the Head Start program you are evaluating is designed to provide services to low-income women with infants and toddlers up to three years of age.
The paper, written to APA requirements and double spaced using 12-pointTimes New Romanfont, must address the various aspects of program evaluation, as seen from the Logic Model:
Your paper should have the following subsections:
1. Cover page
2. Introduction that provides some information about program evaluation.
3. Program stakeholders: Who are the likely stakeholders for this program?
4. Inputs: What are the inputs needed to successfully evaluate this program? What are the connections between the various inputs?
5. Program process: Describe what the program process will entail to achieve a successful evaluation.
6. What are the outputs of the program?
7. What are the program outcomes?
8. What are the challenges likely to be faced during the evaluation process?
9. Summary: Summarize how all these steps of program evaluation come together to make the program evaluation exercise useful.
10. Reference page: Use between 4 and 6 scholarly sources, including your textbook. Scholarly sources are: peer-reviewed articles, government reports, and textbooks.
Articles:
1. I. BACKGROUND LITERATURE REVIEW PERTAINING TO THE EARLY HEAD START STUDY by HelenH.Raikes, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and JohnM. Love.
2. EARLY HEAD START MAP: MANUALIZED ASSESSMENT OF PROGRESS by SUSAN DICKSTEIN, RONALD SEIFER, MARIA EGUIA, REGINA KUERSTEN-HOGAN and KARIN DODGE MAGEE.
3. Applying a Response-to-Intervention Model for Early Literacy Development in Low-Income Children by Maribeth Gettinger and Karen Stoiber.
4. Early Head Start Relationships: Association with Program Outcomes by James Elicker, Xiaoli Wen, Kyong-Ah Kwon and Jill B. Sprague.