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Professional horticultural therapists are responsible for
evaluating their programs to see if they are having the desired effect. A formal
evaluation is also of interest to clients, administrators, funding sources, and
others who must discriminate between the effectiveness of various health care
services. To gather information for a formal report, programs with individualized
goals and objectives must be evaluated on the collective results of the success
or failure of each individual program. Programs with standardized goals
and objectives rely on the collective pre and post test results to determine if
their program is working. Evaluation methods for programs with generalized
goals and objectives are the most difficult to evaluate and rely on a
non-experimental approach, quasi-experimental approach, or classic experimental
design. Once the information is collected, a formal program evaluation must be
clearly written with recommendations for change. This report must be put into
the hands of influential people to help secure funding, improve programs, and
ultimately benefit the client.
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