CONFERENCE OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT PLANNING GUIDE

CONFERENCE OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT PLANNING GUIDE Primary content development by Victor Paa Kwesi Mensah, view other contributors here

Target Group

This course/guide may target:
 * Hospitality Management Learners
 * Business Communication Students
 * Meeting Associates
 * Those Planning to be meeting professionals
 * Any one with an interest and commitment to learn

Defining Your Program and Conference Outcomes

 * 1) Clearly state Conference goals.
 * 2) List specific objectives for each goal.
 * 3) Let every party know what the objectives of the Conference are

Aligning Program Components with Conference Outcomes

 * 1) Identify program components that are designed to achieve each conference objective.
 * 2) Design your conference programme to reflect the achievement of your objectives

Selecting and Implementing Assessment Methods

 * 1) Understanding that not every goal or conference objective can always be assessed, identify those that you prize most highly and that can be meaningfully measured.
 * 2) Select methods or instruments for gathering data to show whether participants have achieved or experienced the expected outcomes related to conference objectives and goals.

Using Evidence Gathered in Assessment

 * 1) Specify procedures for analyzing and interpreting the data gathered in assessment.


 * 1) Identify the means by which information that results from assessment can be used for decision-making, strategic planning, conference evaluation and audit, and an overall improvement in future conferences or meetings.