Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation and Assessment
offered by University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation and Assessment
at
UNLV
Overview

Advanced Evaluation Skills for Effective Assessment - Graduate Certificate Program

Skills you will learn

Who should do this course?

Professionals in education, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and research institutions seeking to enhance their skills in evaluating programs and assessing their effectiveness

What are the course deliverables?

Students will acquire evaluation planning and design skills to ensure that program stakeholders find evaluation processes and products valuable in meeting their needs. This includes ensuring appropriate representation of values, norms, and beliefs of stakeholder groups
Students will develop knowledge of practical project management skills to increase evaluation effectiveness and efficiency
Students will understand appropriate negotiation, planning, and reporting practices to support what is proper, fair, legal, right and just in evaluations
Students will develop research design, methodological, and analytic skills to increase the dependability and truthfulness of evaluation representations, propositions, and findings, especially those that support interpretations and judgments about quality

More about this course

The graduate certificate in program evaluation and assessment targets both part-time and full-time graduate students who wish to develop specialized knowledge of the practice and application of evaluation. This program is particularly relevant to individuals who may need to plan and conduct evaluations in their workplace
The 15-credit certificate program is geared toward those who need to produce evaluation and incorporate evaluation results into decision making and program planning

METHODS CORE

EPY 702 - Research Methods

EDH 707 - Designing & Critiquing Research In Education

REQUIRED EVALUATION CORE

EPY 716 - Evaluation Research Methods

EPY 726 - Advanced Evaluation Research Methods

ELECTIVES

EPY 709 - Classroom Assessment

EPY 710 - Survey Methods and Design

EPY 723 - Psychometrics I

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Conditional Offer Up Arrow Icon

Yes
Conditional admission is granted when the applicant must complete course deficiencies as part of the program or meet some additional requirements before finalizing admission, i.e., a final transcript of course work in progress while applying for admission, a missing letter of recommendation or standardized test score, etc. Graduate Provisional students may also be classified as Conditional Admission.
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