Assessing OD intervention involves judging about whether an intervention has been implemented as intended and if so, whether it is having desired results.

1. Assessment of OD
OD Process

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3. Assessment of OD
• Assessing OD intervention
involves judging about
whether an intervention
has been implemented as
intended and if so,
whether it is having
desired results.

4. Assessment of OD
• There are two distinct types of
OD assessment: On intended to
guide the implementation of
intervention and another to
assess their overall impact.
• Assessment aimed at guiding
implementation may be called
implementation assessment
and assessment intended to
discover intervention outcomes
may be called evaluation
assessment.

5. Assessment of OD
• Assessment of OD involves
decision about measurement
and research design.
• Measurement issues focuses
on selecting variables and
designing good measures.
• Research design focuses on
setting up the conditions for
making valid assessments of
an OD interventions effect.

6. Implementation and evaluation
assessment

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Western College Publishing
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Implementation
Feedback
• Feedback aimed at
guiding
implementation efforts
• Milestones,
intermediate targets
• Measures of the
intervention’s progress
Evaluation
Feedback
• Feedback aimed at
determining impact of
intervention
• Goals, outcomes,
performance
• Measures of the
intervention’s effect