Summative Assessment: Define Program
You have identified a program (Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA program ) that you believe requires evaluation. You have had also identified stakeholders as well as potential problems and evidence of the calibrators at play. After consulting with your supervisor and peers, you decide to present your evaluation plan to members of a task force comprised of your stakeholders.
You choose to introduce the evaluation design for the Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA program at a meeting of the stakeholders.
Write a detailed paper in which you include the following:
• As an executive summary for your evaluation plan, use one slide to introduce the program. Provide a statement of purpose and include its vision, mission, and goals. Present the stakeholders.
• Define its operations. Describe its strategies and activities.
Answer the following:
• What are the intentions behind its operation? Who benefits?
• What are the strategies and activities it performs?
• Identify its short-, intermediate-, and long-term goals.
• Explain how current strategies are or are not supporting these goals.
• What evidence of applied theory do you see?
• What theory or theories would you apply to strengthen the program? How?
