Assessment 2

prepare a proposal for the evaluation of
the ‘evaluand’ identified in Assignment 1.

• The evaluation proposal is to be written as a plan for the actual conduct of an evaluation involving you as a central figure in the conduct of the evaluation.

• The evaluation plan you develop should include consideration of:

• ?The overall purpose of the evaluation (understanding or making
judgments;

• The major focus of the evaluation – what is to be studied and the
kinds of issues the evaluation will address;

• The approach together with an accessible statement on why this
particular approach is being used;

• Means of gathering information and evidence;

• Methods for analysing evidence (data) to produce findings;

• The likely form of the final report and the dissemination of findings
and key audiences;

• Issues likely to arise in the course of the evaluation;

• Who will participate and how they will be selected and approached
to be involved;

• The likely time commitments of informants and other participants;

• The principles of procedure and ways in which confidential
information will be treated

• Strategies for ameliorating tensions between evaluation processes
for improvement and evaluation procedures for accountability; and

• The consistency of the approach with notions of inclusivity, staff
development practices and the facilitation of quality assurance
outcomes.

Topic: Assessment 2

Order Description
write a 2250-word essay on One of the following topics:

1) Analyse the statement, ‘ Mental illness is a social problem’ . To examine this question draw on one or two of the concepts of class, poverty, ethnicity, gender or race.

2) Analyse this statement, ‘Debates about health in Australia are more about allocation of scarce resources than about efficacy of care’. To examine this use the concepts of power, politics and ideology that underpin health policy as determined by the major parties in Australia.

PLEASE NOTE – Majority of the references (7-9) should be based on journal articles, books, book chapters and peer reviewed papers. You can use websites but citations from Wikipedia are unacceptable. Should be Australian based references as much as possible