Capacity Building in Evaluation for Education and Public Outreach Professionals

Abstract:

How well are you measuring impact? What impact are you having? What evidence do you have to support your conclusions about the impact you are having? In this session, you will use our Quantitative Collaborative Impact Analysis Evaluation Method to get a diagnostic score that both baselines your current evaluation efforts and helps you plan to increase the rigor of your evaluation. You will receive materials on the Method so you can use it with your own projects, your team, and/or your external evaluator. This Method has been used with 40 projects and E/PO professionals, with 100% reporting increased confidence and competence in thinking through their evaluation plans. They also report increased impact because of the knowledge and improved evaluation efforts gained by using the method. Integrating evaluation into the entire project cycle is a powerful tool for focusing everyone’s efforts on outcomes and participant impact. See http://www.techforlearning.org/evaluation.html