CRIJ 5330 Planning & Evaluation Proposal As a final project, you will prepare an evaluation proposal related to any criminal justice issue, criminal justice organization, criminal justice program, or policy. You need to follow the outline below. Your proposal should be 5-7 pages (excluding references), double space, Times New Roman, 12-point font size, and APA style in your citations and references. EVALUATION PROPOSAL OUTLINE 1. EVALUAND IDENTIFICATION 2. EVALUATION PARADIGM 3. EVALUATION DESIGN 1. Identifying Stakeholders 2. Evaluation Types 3. Data Collection Strategies 4. Data Analysis 4. SHARING RESULTS / WRITING REPORT 5. META-EVALUATION 6. PROJECT MANAGEMENT A evaluation proposal is a plan that helps guide your evaluation, therefore it is just like the budget an organization makes at the beginning of every fiscal year. The Evaluation proposal is your own project, where you can be an "Evaluator" and decide on a criminal justice policy, organization or issue and plan to evaluate it based on the concepts learned in the course. What is your Evaluand? Who will your stakeholders be? What type of evaluation will you carry out and why? What paradigm will guide your proposed evaluation? What design or methodology will you chose and why? How will you gather the data/information and how will you analyze the data? How will you conduct a meta evaluation; how your project will be managed; and finally how you will share your results/write your report? You will find all these required concepts under each week. Follow the outline above to write your proposal. The texts for the course have guided us on each of the required concepts through the past seven weeks. The Evaluation Proposal is due on Wednesday, July 28th at 11.59 PM. You have three attempts to submit to reduce plagiarism issues. In the past, some students have actually evaluated their organizations (hypothetically, without real numbers that may be confidential of course). Please make sure you are not violating any confidentiality agreements or privacy rights of your organization. I have gotten a couple of questions about the "results". In this proposal they will not be actual results, but the main purpose here is to understand the concept of what will happen when you have the results of your proposed evaluation? How will you share your results, with who, and what steps you plan to take for implementation or changes to the issue, program, organization or policy? But hypothetically, you have a reason why you are carrying out this evaluation therefore you should know what you would want to do with the results,, who you will share them with, whatever the results may be.