MISSION
The Program Development and Evaluation Unit provides training
and technical assistance that enables Cooperative Extension campus
and community-based faculty and staff to plan, implement and evaluate
high quality educational programs.
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
Program development is an ongoing systematic process that UW-Extension
professionals follow as they plan, implement and evaluate their
educational programs. The process can be applied on a small scale
to an individual workshop; on a larger scale to a comprehensive
community initiative or to a county or statewide program of action.
The scope may be different but the principles of program development
remain the same.
In UW-Extension, the program development process is captured
in our program development model that includes situational analysis,
priority setting, program action - the logic model - and evaluation.
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WHAT'S
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The
Program Development and Evaluation Unit is pleased
to be recognized by the Health Foundation of
Greater Cincinnati as their 2009 Distinguished
Evaluator for “outstanding work building
evaluation capacity.”
The
Winter 2008 issue of New Directions for
Evaluation features evaluation in the national
Cooperative Extension system. Titled, “Program
Evaluation in a Complex Organizational System:
Lessons from Cooperative Extension”,
it includes 7 articles written by Extension
evaluation specialists covering topics such
as the evolution of evaluation in Extension;
evaluating multilevel programs; structures
that support evaluation; evaluation capacity
building; methodological rigor; and the value
of evaluation in Cooperative Extension. A
final review chapter is written by Michael
Quinn Patton. Available at http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-155510.html |
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