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Engage Stakeholders In Program Evaluation: Throw Them A Party!, Kendra M. Lewis, Timothy Ewers, Marianne Bird, Tamekia Wilkins
Engage Stakeholders In Program Evaluation: Throw Them A Party!, Kendra M. Lewis, Timothy Ewers, Marianne Bird, Tamekia Wilkins
The Journal of Extension
A data party is an engaging way to involve stakeholders in program evaluation. We explain the use of a data party for engaging 4-H program stakeholders (e.g., staff and volunteers) in data interpretation and helping them understand, embrace, and use program evaluation information to make data-driven decisions about their programs. We present two tools that can be used for presenting data in a clear and meaningful way: data place mats and gallery walks. We also provide information on the process we used, our lessons learned, and the utility of data parties in Extension programming.
Asynchronous Volunteer Engagement In Online Continuing Education Using Virtual Communities, Amy Freidig
Asynchronous Volunteer Engagement In Online Continuing Education Using Virtual Communities, Amy Freidig
The Journal of Extension
The Wisconsin Master Gardener Program team used the Google+ Community platform to provide an engaging online discussion forum for asynchronous continuing education experiences. Applications of such a tool for volunteer online education have numerous benefits, including the capacity for asynchronous posting, ease of posting, privacy options, wide availability, and the potential for internal troubleshooting.
Public Scholarship: A Tool For Strengthening Relationships Across Extension, Campus, And Community, J. Kale Monk, Jacquelyn J. Benson, Tashel C. Bordere
Public Scholarship: A Tool For Strengthening Relationships Across Extension, Campus, And Community, J. Kale Monk, Jacquelyn J. Benson, Tashel C. Bordere
The Journal of Extension
Higher education resources are increasingly limited due to declining budget revenue and other challenges. Thus, it is vital for Cooperative Extension to synergize efforts of disseminating education to the public. Promoting public scholarship in and beyond Extension is a promising initiative that can foster collaborations by leveraging existing resources in advancing the Extension mission. We highlight a new program aimed at encouraging a culture of public scholarship across academia. The program is intended to increase knowledge about public scholarship and awareness of its benefits to stakeholders, identify barriers to public scholarship, and provide concrete examples of ways Extension and non-Extension …
Method For Monitoring Quality Of Extension Programs: A Dashboard Construction Process, Gary D. Ellis, Allen Taggart, Toby Lepley, Andrew Lacanienta
Method For Monitoring Quality Of Extension Programs: A Dashboard Construction Process, Gary D. Ellis, Allen Taggart, Toby Lepley, Andrew Lacanienta
The Journal of Extension
We describe a process for construction and use of a "dashboard" for monitoring the quality of in-person nonformal education programs. We followed the process to develop a 4-H special interest (SPIN) club dashboard, but the steps are applicable to any education program that includes instruction over multiple sessions. The dashboard construction process comprises selecting performance measures, choosing data collection strategies, designing the content and layout of the dashboard, collecting data, and populating the dashboard with performance metrics. Although these process steps are intuitive, specific decision options within each step can be complex. Our article includes discussion of these complexities in …