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Evaluation Plan

Scenario Evaluation Plan

University of Phoenix

HSM 270
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When evaluating the Santa Rosa Philharmonic Youth Symphony, it is important to look at the

processes the program plan is going through to make sure they will be effective. Does the

program provide a certain number of days and hours per day the students can practice together?

How many teachers are dedicating their after school time to better the student’s talents?

Questions like these will draw out quantitative and qualitative data and allow the evaluator to

document whether or not the program is appropriate and acceptable for the community, and also

if it is working hard enough to get the desired results in the end.

To determine whether the program is making any process, it is important to evaluate the

staff by seeing how often they meet, how many staff members are new and to what extent they

are trained, and whether or not they are prepared for the curriculum of the program’s plans.

Process evaluations are taken care of through staff interviews, questionnaires, and other surveys.

The process evaluation of the Santa Rosa Philharmonic Youth Symphony keeps a close

eye on the staff and what they are doing to better the music careers for their young musicians,

how the community is responding to the time dedicated to the new program, and at the same time

keeping the project’s goals, objectives, and cost analysis’ in mind.

To make sure the Symphony passes all outcome evaluations, it is important to make sure

the programs are all dedicated to a strong outcome of a strong symphony that is well practiced,

performs well, and receives community appreciation. The outcomes of the music programs need

to focus on the support of the community and whether they were affected by the powerful

movement of the symphony, whether every supporter in the community was able to enjoy the

performances, and whether or not the program is capable of replicating another program for the

community to enjoy.
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To achieve success in evaluating the Youth Symphony, I believe the evaluations should

both be internal and external. I think an empowerment evaluation would be the best for the

symphony because their ratings are based on performances and community involvement. I think

when an insider is focusing their time and dedication to better the performance of a student they

will understand first-hand the improvement of the individual. However, since the evaluation is

of the entire program and not solely focused on one individual, I believe it is more effective to

get an outside evaluation done. An outside evaluator is less likely to be sensitive to feelings of

the people because they are less personally connected to them and therefore are less sensitive to

hurting the feelings of the program. An outsider can provide critical instructional feedback to

allow the program room for growth and improvement.

A few ways the empowerment evaluations would work could be that the students would

be given handouts to take home to their parents to evaluate their child’s recent behavioral,

performing, and academic performances. Using people who are close to the program are helpful,

and it is a good idea because they know inside information and they are familiar with how

everything works. However, I think that if you decide to do an internal evaluation, it is

important to evaluate the staff first to make sure they are not going to be corrupt in their analysis.

People take great personal offense to their programs, and if you ask them to find out the

problems with their program, they may not provide you with the full honest truth.

With that being said, I believe an external evaluator would be better suited for the program. I

believe the evaluator should focus on giving an project-wide evaluation because the evaluation

includes the big picture and the big idea. Since the main idea of the program is to get the

children to perform and receive recognition for their performances, it is important to take a step
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back and see if the performances are reaching maximum potential. All the questions of the

evaluators will be focused on the big picture and overlook the minor details.

Since evaluations are important and can only go one way, I believe it would be important

for the staff to focus more on the objective-oriented goals than the evaluators. Since the

evaluators are looking to see if the objectives and goals have been met, it is the job of the staff to

make sure the accomplishments are being met by reinforcing rewards to their students when they

accomplish an objective.

I believe a good way to measure performance in a student is to have a chair tryout every

week to determine which students are practicing their hardest, and which students deserve to sit

at the front of the row and become leaders. I also think that reinforcing good behavior with fun

music reward days would be a good treat for the hard work of the young students.