Jeff Coutts The basis of all extension programs is engaging with people. However the term ‘engagement’ means different things to different people – and there are different types of engagement for different purposes. So if one of your Key Evaluation Questions is “how well did the project engage with their target groups” how do you
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Measuring engagement in extension
5 golden MER rules for 2012
For those who came in late, MER stands for Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting. Many of you who receive this newsletter have worked with us in some way in the MER process – and hopefully found some tools and information through the newsletter and website to further develop your own MER capacity. We thought we would
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Jeff’s postcard from Canada
As I enjoy some very unseasonal warm weather in New Brunswick, Canada, I would like to be able to report on everything I have found out about extension services or evaluation over here….. but my association with agriculture in Canada to date has only been apple picking near Moncton!
Determining KASA
The term KASA comes from Bennett’s Hierarchy – a table that maps out inputs to outcomes for extension programs. It stands for Knowledge, Attitudes, Skills & Aspiration. These are the changes that are seen to need to happen in people’s heads before they are equipped to make targeted practice changes. We have found that people have had difficulty in thinking through the
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CSIRO/CRRDC Evaluation Roundtable – considering social & environmental impacts
As reported by Gordon Stone On 12th May 2011 QualDATA directors, Jeff Coutts and Gordon Stone, attended a Roundtable meeting in Canberra jointly convened by the Council of RDCs and CSIRO. The purpose of the meeting was to consider strategic approaches to, and future possibilities of, impact evaluation of research – in context of the
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