5 credits
Effective educational leaders must have the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to accurately and effectively evaluate programs that lead to making data-driven decisions and promote continuous improvement for all learners. In this course, education professionals use available data points and tools to evaluate the design, implementation, and program outcomes to determine a program's impact on the learner, family, and community. The results of the program evaluation guide education professionals to develop action plans that may include the development of community outreach programs, grants, legislation/policy reform, professional development plans, or technology solutions. Through this course, education professionals build decision-making skills as they must determine whether to recommend an improvement plan of an existing program or propose a new program or initiative.