Design Rationale Template
Process
1. Research
2. Refining
3. Explore
4. Establish Goals
and Objectives
5. Develop
Strategies
6. Identify Data
Elements to be
Collected for
Evaluation and
Analysis
7. Build
Infrastructure for
the Project
8. Determine
Project Budget
9. Prepare
Communication
Plan
Table [x#]. Process for Design of X Project
Description
Quantitative and qualitative numbers, plus student, faculty, and staff surveys focus
group discussions and community data, which foretell future needs.
Identification of research results, which most directly impact deficient goals identified
in the RFP/RFA
Study successful practices at similar institutions, including some visits and many phone
calls and emails.
Working with the planning committee and review state standards. Establish a goal and
the objectives, which must be accomplished to attain the goal.
Create subgroups of the planning group to develop strategies, time schedules, and
resources, needed to complete the activities, which must be completed to accomplish the
objectives.
Review the strategies to determine not only incremental outcomes and process
measurements, but feedback triggers to suggest changes in the strategy.
Identify project directors and staff assigned to work part-time on the project. Determine
the positions which will need to be grant-funded and eventually institutionalized.
Fine tune the schedule of proposed activities to mesh with the grants budget limitations.
Projects’ goals, objectives, and progress must be well known within all institutional
constituencies.