Program Planning and Evaluation

Which qualitative method(s) do you believe would be ideally suited to use at each stage of the planning and evaluation cycle? Justify your answer.

If you had a very limited budget but were committed to col­lecting and using some type of qualitative data to get at the perceptions of program participants, what might be your best option? Explain.

List the four criteria for assessing the rigor of qualitative studies. Imagine that you are planning to conduct in-depth interviews of program participants to assess program effects. For each criterion, give one example of how you would address that criterion in your plan for the outcome evaluation.