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This form helps program teams assemble data for the annual federal report.
EFANS Program Team Data Collection Requirements for the Year 2009
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This short presentation is designed to help you understand the difference between outputs, outcomes, and impacts and why the use of this terminology can be helpful in evaluation. Grants often call for this language and University of Minnesota Extension uses these terms when referring to different aspects of our program work.
Outputs, outcomes, impacts: what are they? (pdf)
The Learner Evaluation of Session Survey [.doc] includes the core questions that a large number of EFANS programs have been asking their learners at the end of structured educational events, such as classes, workshops, and clinics. Questions relate to instructor performance, event satisfaction, learning gains, learning use potential, and marketing, among other things. It is two pages (front and back). You can use the survey as is, or modify it to meet your needs. When preparing to evaluate a structured learning event, this sursvey can give you a running start.
This survey comes with a Guide to the Learner Evaluation of Session Survey [.doc]. If you wonder what a particular survey question is good for, refer to this guide. This guide discusses each item on the survey—the evaluation question behind each item along with potential uses for each item. It also identifies who needs (or would perhaps benefit) from the information that each item generates—central Extension (MyPrograms), EFANS, program areas, programs, event developers, faculty, and others.
Download Learner Evaluation of Session Survey [.doc] and Guide to the Learner Evaluation of Session Survey [.doc]
The Instructor: Event Information Form [.doc] provides a standard place to log general information requested by central Extension's MyPrograms database. It also includes "output" variables that are valuable for tracking differences in your audience and differences in your program delivery. Tracking this event "output" information gives you the ability to compare the performance of different groups and methods. Comparison allows you can discover which method is most effective for which group. Measures of effectiveness (satisfaction, outcomes, other measures) can be collected using the above Learner Evaluation of Session Survey.
The Guide to the Instructor: Event Information Form [.doc] discusses the evaluation question and use of each item included in the Instructor: Event Information Form. It also identifies which items are requested by MyPrograms and other potential users of each item.
Many people use Excel to analyze their survey data. Sometime this can seem limiting. There are two software programs that can help you. One can make it easer to analyze data within Excel, the other will give you the full and menu-driven capabilities of a program like the SPSS statistical package, without the cost.
EZAnalyze
This program is a plug-in for Excel. After downloading, it adds a new pull-down menu to your Excel workshee, where you can run basic statistical processes, etc. It works on PCs and Macs, and is free for educators.
Download EZAnalyze
MYSTAT
This program is a full-feature, menu-driven statistical package, similar to SPSS. Although it has no limits on the number of cases (rows) it allows, it is limited to 100 variables (columns). Most EFANS surveys fit well within these parameters. The software is free to students.
Download MYSTAT
This is a great general, five-minute tutorial on logic models. It will give you a basic sense of what logic models are, how to build one, and the best ways to use them. The terminology is slightly different than what we use at University of Minnesota Extension, but the concepts are clear and useful.
Download Logic Model Tutorial
Consult Extension's Logic Model template [.pdf]
Planning a Program Evaluation (by Ellen Taylor-Powell) is a succinct, easy-to-read explanation of what to consider when planning an evaluation.
Download Planning a Program Evaluation [.pdf]