Professional development (PD) requires significant time and resources. Whether you are a program director or a PD provider, you and your stakeholders want to know if your PD is working and why (or why not). Evaluation is a systematic process you can use to learn if your activities are achieving their intended purpose. The results of evaluation can be used to demonstrate successful outcomes to your stakeholders, garner additional support for your activities, identify specific ways to improve implementation, and make strategic decisions about what activities to continue or change moving forward.
Last Reviewed: October 8, 2019
