Discuss at least three (3) benefits of having a formative evaluation in your planned evaluation and how it would improve the program.

 “Decision-Oriented Approaches” Please respond to the following:

  • Describe a program in your organization (school or business) that has been ineffective and would benefit from a decision-oriented approach. Discuss at least three (3) benefits of having a formative evaluation in your planned evaluation and how it would improve the program.

Discuss two (2) major constraints in conducting an evaluation on this program and a method of addressing them.

Assignment 1 is the first part of a five-part project to plan the various elements of a program evaluation for education. Select a program target from your school district, workplace, (e.g., business training program) or your university (where you are a student). For you to gain the most from the assignment, you should select a program that you are interested in, would like to see evaluated, and are able to obtain information about. (Possible programs include: student assessment, teacher assessment, pay for student achievement, new teacher or employee training, online classrooms, anti-bullying, gender equity for girls in math and science, school to work, retention of at-risk students, and schools of choice (charter schools), etc.). As you develop the entire plan, gather information, and receive feedback from your professor (or others), you should revise and refine each part of the project. Think of your professor as your project evaluator and supervisor who will help guide you so that you produce an outstanding, well-developed evaluation plan for the stakeholders.

Write a  paper in which you:

  1. Describe three (3) elements of a worthy object for program evaluation – its type, the department administrating it, and target population.
  2. Describe the program’s history, primary purpose(s), and / or expected outcomes.
  3. Explain three (3) reasons for selecting the program (e.g., program’s value or lack of it, issues surrounding it, age, relevance, cost, impact on students, etc.).
  4. Discuss three (3) advantages of evaluating the program at this time.
  5. Discuss two (2) major constraints in conducting an evaluation on this program and a method of addressing them.
  6. Use at least three (3) peer-reviewed academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and many Websites do not qualify as academic resources. Peer-reviewed academic resources refer to articles and scholarly journals that are reviewed by a panel of experts or peers in the field. Review the video titled Research Starter: Finding Peer-Reviewed References for more information on obtaining peer-reviewed academic resources through your Blackboard course shell.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Explore the need for evaluating school programs.
  • Develop a program evaluation plan for education.
  • Write clearly and concisely about education program evaluation using proper writing mechanics.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in educational program evaluation.

Write the equations you would use to calculate the bubble-point and dew point temperatures of the mixture.

 A liquid mixture contains N components (N may be any number from 2 to 10) at pressure P(mmHg). The mole fraction of the i-th component is given by the Antoine equation. Raoult’s law may be applied to each component.

  1. Write the equations you would use to calculate the bubble-point and dew point temperatures of the mixture.
  2. Prepare a spreadsheet to perform the calculations of part (a).
  3. Test your spreadsheet by performing the following calculations:
    1. The bubble-point temperature of an equimolar mixture of liquid n-hexane and n-heptane at 1.0 atm.
    2. The dew-point temperature of a gas mixture with a molar composition of 30% n-hexane, 30% n-heptane, and 40% air at 1 atm Report the compositions of the vapor in equilibrium with the mixture in (i) and the composition of the liquid in equilibrium with the mixture in (ii).