Trainings
UCCE Program Development and Evaluation Capacity Building Trainings 2024
WHAT: Online interactive trainings to help with planning your programs/projects, engaging diverse audiences, civil rights compliance/affirmative action, and to evaluate your programs and assess their impact. These trainings highlight UCCE examples. This is a 11-part series offered a la carte, select whichever interests you or take the complete series!
HOSTED by: UC ANR Program Planning and Evaluation; UCCE Evaluation Specialist Vikram Koundinya, UC 4-H Evaluation Coordinator Roshan Nayak, and the UC ANR Office of Diversity & Inclusion.
We are pleased to share we received the 2024 American Evaluation Association Extension Education Evaluation Team Award for Evaluation Capacity Building!
WHEN: Tuesdays from 10 AM-12 pm August 6th through October 15th
WHO should attend: CE academics, community educators, and other program staff. NEW CE advisors and County Directors/regional program supervisors are highly encouraged; taking the entire series can build overall program development competencies and is encouraged.
Register here - https://na.eventscloud.com/2024ecbtraining
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Topic |
Date |
Presenters |
Participants will gain… |
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Defining Clientele & Affirmative Action Planning |
8/6 |
Kit Alviz David White With recorded examples from UCCE Advisors and Community Educator Specialists |
Understanding of how to define clientele groups and strategies for collecting baseline data Understanding of affirmative action goal examples One new goal for affirmative action and list of the group’s brainstormed goals Hands on experience using Project Board or Statewide Program data to track annual progress against goals Understanding of examples of how to collect race, ethnicity and gender data from program participants |
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Improving All Reasonable Effort and Engagement with Diverse Audiences |
8/13 |
Kit Alviz David White Guest Speaker: Cristina Murillo-Barrick |
Understanding of programmatic strategies to conduct All Reasonable Effort Understanding of how to demonstrate compliance via All Reasonable Effort documentation Understanding of programmatic strategies UCCE employs to successfully reach and engage diverse audiences to achieve parity Understanding of how to report contacts in statewide program systems and Project Board |
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Conducting a Needs Assessment |
8/20 |
Katherine Webb-Martinez Vikram Koundinya With a roundtable of UCCE Advisors |
Understanding of needs assessments basics (why, what, how, when) Understanding of how to write good needs assessment questions Understanding of how to use the findings to inform how you focus and develop your program Feedback on your needs assessment approach or on your draft instrument/questions |
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Using Delphi Method for Needs Assessment |
8/27 |
Vikram Koundinya Katherine Webb-Martinez Guest Speakers: John Diaz, Anil Chaudhary, and Julia Van Soelen-Kim |
Understanding of how Delphi method can be used in needs assessment Understanding of how Delphi method can be adapted for outcomes measurement Knowledge of how Delphi method was used in three research and evaluation studies |
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Practical Methods to Measuring Outcomes |
9/3 |
Katherine Webb-Martinez Vikram Koundinya With a roundtable of UCCE Advisors |
Understanding of how to define program theory and connect to ANR’s condition changes and public values Experience defining outcomes and measurable indicators and using a program logic model Understanding of options for evaluation data collection methods to measure program participant outcomes A draft evaluation plan |
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Using Ripple Effects Mapping (REM) Method in Program Evaluation |
9/10 |
Vikram Koundinya Kit Alviz Guest Speakers: TBD UCCE Advisors |
Understanding of how to use REM in assessing the impact of extension programs Hands-on experience of REM method using an example case |
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Best Practices for Developing Surveys & Basics of Sampling Methods |
9/17 |
Vikram Koundinya Roshan Nayak Kit Alviz Guest Speaker: Natalia Pinzón Jiménez |
Understanding of the best practices for designing online and paper surveys Hands-on experience developing good survey questions Understanding of some online survey bot mitigation and detection methods Understanding of different outcome measurement survey designs Understanding of different survey sampling methods and when to use them |
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Navigating Institutional Review Board (IRB) |
9/24 |
Jennifer Sedell Katherine Webb-Martinez Kit Alviz Panel of UCCE Advisors |
Understanding what is the IRB Understanding when and why to submit an application to the IRB Understanding the basic steps of navigating the IRB and required trainings |
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Methods to Analyze Surveys: Continuous Quantitative Data (Analyzing and Presenting Pre-Post Evaluation Survey Data) |
10/1 |
Roshan Nayak Kit Alviz |
Understanding of measures of central tendency and variability Hands-on experience analyzing and reporting frequency distribution in pre/post tests using Excel Understanding of different types of mean difference tests Hands-on experience running a paired or dependent samples t-test in Excel, interpreting the results, and reporting the findings Understanding of levels of quantitative data (e.g., nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio) |
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Methods to Analyze Surveys: Qualitative Data |
10/8 |
Jennifer Sedell Christina Becker |
Understanding of types of qualitative analysis that can be done on open-ended survey data for program evaluation Hands-on experience of coding qualitative data and extracting themes using Excel, and reporting the findings Practice identifying a mixed methods design to evaluate a program |
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Writing Strong Impact Statements |
10/15 |
Katherine Webb-Martinez Christina Becker Guest Speaker: Mark Bolda, Chair of the Academic Assembly Council Personnel Committee |
Experience connecting your project/program outcomes to condition changes and public values Understanding of how to write strong impact statements Experience organizing your program activities into themes using condition changes |