The Evaluation Process

I never realized how important the evaluation process was until now. After reading dozens of articles for Project GOL, I realize that evaluating is almost as important as program implementation. How do we know if something works if it hasn't been evaluated? We don't. This is why it's so important. For our 666 class, we are currently working on evaluating our program plans. The important thing to remember is that we created our programs based on programs that have worked on our population. How do we know this? Because they were evaluated. Based on our research, we found programs that have been proven to work for our population. Now that we have to evaluate our program, we can base it on previous research. We know that our program will work because it has been proven to do so. I don't know why it never occurred to me how important the evaluation process was because now it just seems like common sense. It was mentioned that there is an evaluation certification. This seems like it would be worth looking into. Maybe a career in evaluation is in my future. who knows?