Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network

Author and Contributors:
Publisher: The Forum for Family and Consumer Issues
Primary Content Area: Parent/Family
Content Type: Evaluation
Audience: Professionals, Educators & Program Staff; General Public & Consumers
Resource Type: Not an extension nor a land-grant developed resource
Keywords: behavioral impacts, educators
Description: Program evaluation is a process that documents the successes and efforts of outreach programs describing educational or behavioral impacts. Increasingly, educators who work with youth and family programs are asked to document program outcomes. These results have become increasingly important to educators and funders. However, with limited accessible information pertaining to program evaluation, educators are often challenged and frustrated by the need to design and conduct good evaluation. This article describes two accessible interactive Web sites that were designed to provide support to educators designing program evaluations. The first site is designed to assist educators in evaluating parenting education programs, in particular. The second site assists educators in designing effective evaluations for any program. These two Web sites offer educators a self-study opportunity to gain new skills and knowledge to support their program evaluation efforts.
Media Type: Plain Text
Resource Listed: August 20, 2001
Resource Last Updated: January 30, 2009
Language: EN

Evaluation that Goes Beyond the Data