A small undergraduate college with a new physical fitness center decided to introduce a health enhancement program for faculty and staff. The program is designed to take one semester to complete with three 1-hour sessions per week.

Answer each of the following questions regarding the evaluation of this program.

A. How might an assessment of needs have played a role in planning the program?

B. What questions about the process of the program would be useful once the program was under way to help ensure that the evaluation of the outcome of the program could be interpreted appropriately?

C. Explain how you would test the effectiveness of the proposed program if it were not possible to do a true experiment.