Outcomes Focused Program Evaluation
Program evaluation is a valuable tool for strengthening the quality of programs and improving outcomes. Evaluation provides an opportunity for critical, strategic thinking through collecting and analysing information about a program's activities, characteristics and outcomes. It allows you to assess the effectiveness of your program and improve future services.
This evaluation course is designed to provide you with the applied knowledge and skills to develop evaluation frameworks for a variety of purposes within your workplace. This course is highly participatory and interactive allowing you to apply learning throughout. Using Program Logic and other tools, you will apply evaluative practice and thinking and learn how to analyse the assumptions and values underpinning the expectation of program outcomes.
You will also determine appropriate evaluative approaches for the purpose of tracking progress, making judgments and decisions, building understanding, improving effectiveness and using evidence in program design and reporting. In this evaluation course you will also draw on your own work case studies connected to organisational strategic goals to build your own learning and capacity
| Duration | Three sessions (15 hours in total) |
| Dates | Class code: OFPE1 (2025) Class code: OFPE2 (2025) |
| Venue | Session one: Face-to-face, UTS Sydney Campus Sessions two & three: Online, via a live video link |
| Cost | $1,980 (GST free) |
This course is designed for anyone involved in delivering a project.
Maintaining a consistent evaluation plan while designing and implementing an entire project can be difficult. Learn how to design your evaluation to best suit your project timeline - improving outcomes while relieving pressure.
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Course content
- Introduction to evaluation and evaluative thinking
- Skills of evaluation
- Building an evaluation culture
- Strategic alignment
- Evaluation design
- The practice of evaluation
- Applying evaluation tools to case studies
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this evaluations course you will understand the context and benefits of evaluation and be able to develop evaluation frameworks for a variety of purposes within your work,
Delivery style
This evaluation course will be offered in a mixed mode format consisting of online delivery via a live Zoom video link and face-to-face teaching on UTS campus.
Session one will be delivered face-to-face at our UTS Sydney Campus with sessions two and three offered online via a live Zoom video link. Location and Zoom link details will be released in the lead up to the commencement date.
This evaluation course can be customised and delivered in-house. Find out more.
About the presenter
Duncan Rintoul is an Associate of IPPG and Director of Rooftop Social: a research and evaluation firm specialising in facilitation and capacity building. Duncan has over 20 years’ consulting experience across a broad range of policy areas, ; including education, justice, human services, health and urban affairs. He works with a diverse mix of government agencies and NGOs and teaches executive education programs for both the Australian Evaluation Society (AES) and Australian Market and Social Research Society. Between 2015-19, Duncan initiated and lead evaluation capacity-building projects in the NSW Department of Education.
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What others have said about this course
The presenter is very knowledgeable, engaging (not too scripted like others I’ve seen) and accommodating, with his style really well suited to the training... he did a great job! - Mark. P
Very knowledgeable, incredibly engaging and entertaining. Thought provoking and considerate and also had the knack of helping me/participants realise we are more competent in the area than we may have thought.- Michael. V
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This short course is presented by the university's Institute for Public Policy and Governance. Learn more about the Institute's advisory and research services, local government postgraduate courses and professional learning and development programs.
