EVALUATIONS

Evaluations – were the project objectives met?
To decide how you will measure or assess if the program or event met your objectives, consider:
What is the nature of the conservation project or event?
Why would involving youth be a benefit?
Who is the audience?

  • age group/existing abilities or knowledge of the topic
  • school group
  • youth organization
  • community or environmental organization
  • job training organization
  • other

What do I want to measure and why? 

  • what they learned
  • what they created
  • what they accomplished
  • what they do as a result of this experience (careful you have the resources for this kind of tracking)

What will they learn?

  • content
  • new skills
  • leadership skills
  • community involvement
  • decision making
  • self-esteem
  • behavior change
  • career interest

How will they learn it?

  • field trip
  • classroom lesson
  • demonstration
  • hands on
  • group participation
  • team project
  • other

What are the potential teaching tool(s) to use?

  • visual
  • aural
  • verbal
  • physical
  • logical
  • social
  • solitary
  • other

How should this assessment information be gathered?

  • pre-test/post-test
  • group talks
  • interviews
  • questionnaires
  • observations
  • other

What information do I need to demonstrate the learning experience was successful?