Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
CDSE-0028
Organization's ID:
ED 509
Organization:
Center for Development of Security Excellence
Length:
16 weeks (35 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Graduate 3 homeland security, strategic security, or public safety leadership
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to cover the ways in which the senior security manager understands how programs are assessed. This can help the manager establish and share concrete achievements or measurements (metrics) that effectively demonstrate and improve the impact of security programs and activities.

Learning Outcomes:

  • devise a strategy for assessing and evaluating security programs
  • effectively and persuasively demonstrate accountability to commanding officers, agency heads, and policy leadership
  • discuss evaluation of programs using data collected over a long period of time
  • discuss the evolution of program evaluation as a field, including the changing role of evaluators and current / future trends
  • develop short-term and long-term objectives and methodologies to bring about or adopt change to security programs
  • develop an Inspector General program using the twelve-step framework discussed in the course
  • analyze the role of a senior security manager in collecting, analyzing, measuring, and reporting security program performance data
  • construct standards to be used as a baseline for assessing and evaluating security programs
  • based on concepts presented in this course, critique the Department of Defense security program evaluation process

General Topics:

  • Evolution of assessments and program evaluations
  • Evolution of assessments in the defense establishment
  • In-depth examination of a representative DoD program assessment
  • History/evolution of standards setting processes and assessment processes
  • Business of standards, criteria, measures, and metrics
  • Cost benefit analysis I and II
  • Evaluation design
  • Program implementation, improvement, and assessment
  • Conducting evaluations and assessments evaluation data analysis
  • Managerial and leadership perspectives
  • Evaluating security programs
  • Evaluating additional security programs
  • Inspectors general
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Case Studies
  • Computer Based Training
  • Discussion
  • Learner Presentations
  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Case Studies
  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)
  • Quizzes
  • Written Papers

Minimum Passing Score:

80%
Supplemental Materials