Hcs 455 Policy Process Evaluation And Analysis

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The Policy Process: Part II HCS/455 March 13, 2013 Elaine Bobo The Policy Process: Part II The policy making process is an important multi staged process that takes a lot of time and concentration to complete. We started this process with figuring out what the problems or issues are (identifying), from there law makers had to formulate a policy that the parties’ majority agreed on, then the policies changes were implemented. Now we are on the last stage of the process, which is evaluation. In this paper we will be discussing the evaluation and analysis stage, the methodology of this stage, the revision stage, as well as the purpose for evaluation, analyzing and revising a policy. Evaluation and Analysis Stage In the evaluation and analysis stage many things take place that has to do with impact, cost, quality, program effectiveness, and goal attainment. With policy evaluation you are assessing and analyzing if the given goals and/or objectives have been achieved. This is also when judgments are rendered about the programs quality, and discussions are had about the future of a program. There are four types of policy evaluation; they are process evaluation, outcome evaluation, impact evaluation, and cost-benefit evaluation. Process evaluation is…show more content…
With evaluating, analyzing, and revising the policy you will finally see what was created and how it is working to help with the issue it was created for. In this paper we discussed what evaluation and analysis stage, the methodologies of evaluation and analysis, the revision stage, and lastly the purpose for evaluating, analysis and revising a policy. We learned that policy making is a lot of work that takes a lot of time and there are many steps no matter how small but they all share in part with creating the a policy that will in turn be a part of the
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