Previous subjects regarding "Evaluation"

Knowledge: - and skills to design and developed applied research in different social sectors. - And management of methodology and basis technics of social sciences. - And technics skills to produce and to analysis quantitative and qualitative data. - And skills in sampling and field work. To know how to choose the techniques from social research (quantitative and qualitative) adjusted to the setting and the evaluation context. Learning: - Concepts and statistical techniques for human society. Capacities: - To design, used and read into social indicator. - - To link knowledge of sociology and related sciences. - - To adjusted evaluation questions to economic resources, time and human support. - - To evaluate the programs, projects, public policies and social intervention and its results. - - To promote the design of public policies drive to solve social problems. . - - To design programs and projects of social intervention. - -To analysis and synthesis. - -To information management. - - To organization and planning. Skills: - In the development of organizations (consulting, design and management of organizations and institutions). - critical thinking. - Ethical commitment. - Interdisciplinary teamwork - Decision making

- To introduce the subject and link with previous subject¿Development Evaluation of Programes and Organitations. -operationalization: from questions or criteria to indicators. Identification of indicators and standars. Indicators reordered and ad hoc. Different ways to fix standars. - To introduce techniques: surveys, secondary sources, observation, interview, focus group, life history, others gruop techniques and product and visual analysis. - Impact Evaluation Design. Methodological options to estimate net effect: experimental desing, cuasiexperimental and noexperimental. Statistical modeling: standardization and regression. - Data analysis: Quantitative: bivariate data mining. Multivariate data mining: multivariate regression, ANOVA and ANCOVA. Qualitative: discourse analysis. Mixed methods. - Interpretation. How to produce a data interpretation based in systematic approach or driven by program theory. - The analyzing of evaluation methods and the correspondence whit proposes: enlightenment, improvement and accountability. - To identify recommendations Analysis and classification of evaluation¿s models: PISA, ACB, EFQM-TQM, CIPP (Stufflebeam), trial (Wolf). . Análisis y clasificación de modelos de evaluación: Informe PISA, ACB, EFQM, CIPP, judicial,

- Teacher explanation of the contents with the active participation of students through dynamic and workshops. This method relate primarily to the acquisition of knowledge and abilities. The students work whit a brief handbooks. These tasks are estimated in 3 ECTS. - Specific workshops (methological options, discourse analysis and interpretation). The three workshops are conducting mainly with the assistance of the teacher in class time. This task is estimated in 3ECTS. - Individuals or group tutorials. The teacher gives support trough individuals o groups interviews.