Evaluate program effectiveness
Most of the output can be produced by software today.
Software can pull the data, run the comparison and write up what it found. The accuracy depends almost entirely on whether it is wired into the real system of record rather than a stale copy, which is the problem the tools and auth layer exists to solve.
| How automatable | Mostly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Analysis and evaluation work |
| Jobs that do it | 15 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Builders, Tools and auth |
| O*NET activity | Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People (4.A.2.a.1) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 15 occupations that perform it.
- Identify and evaluate pilot projects or programs to enhance the sustainability research agenda.
- Evaluate the structure, efficiency, activities, and performance of government agencies.
- Devise or evaluate methods and procedures for collecting data, such as surveys, opinion polls, and questionnaires.
- Identify, develop, or evaluate marketing strategy, based on knowledge of establishment objectives, market characteristics, and cost and markup factors.
- Evaluate advertising and promotion programs for compatibility with public relations efforts.
- Evaluate advertising and promotion programs for compatibility with fundraising efforts.
- Develop, conduct, support, or assist in governmental reviews, internal corporate evaluations, or assessments of the overall effectiveness of facility and personnel security processes.
- Administer, direct, and review employee benefit programs, including the integration of benefit programs following mergers and acquisitions.
- Evaluate instructor performance and the effectiveness of training programs, providing recommendations for improvement.
- Review and evaluate new and current programs to determine their efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance with state, local, and federal regulations and recommend any necessary modifications.
- Evaluate curricula, teaching methods, and programs to determine their effectiveness, efficiency, and use, and to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
- Develop and perform tests and evaluations of emergency management plans in accordance with state and federal regulations.
- Track cost-containment strategies and programs to evaluate effectiveness.
- Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice or organizational systems.
- Evaluate services received on the tour, and report findings to tour organizers.
- Monitor and evaluate effectiveness of sustainability programs.
- Design, evaluate, and modify benefits policies to ensure that programs are current, competitive, and in compliance with legal requirements.
- Evaluate fitness and wellness programs to determine their effectiveness.
What we would actually use
One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for analysis and evaluation work, and what it costs.
Start in the assistant with an export of the real data, because the accuracy problem here is a stale copy rather than a weak model. Make, at $9 a month, is the cheapest way to put the pull on a schedule once the analysis is worth repeating.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
Step-by-step workflows that name this activity, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Others for analysis and evaluation work
Who does this work
15 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Advertising and Promotions Managers
- Chief Sustainability Officers
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
- Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
- Emergency Management Directors
- Fitness and Wellness Coordinators
- Fundraising Managers
- Legislators
- Marketing Managers
- Public Relations Managers
- Security Managers
- Training and Development Managers
- Travel Guides
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Evaluate programs, practices, or processes”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.