Week 13 - Part 1: How to demonstrate adoption and social change

Student Learning Objectives

• Describe the needs for impact assessment
• Explain the models used for impact assessment
• Describe the process and approaches used to collecting data to demonstrate social change and adoption of new practice
• Describe how to write an impact statement

Presentations

Collecting Program Data and Social Indicators
Ivette Stern

Program Data and Social Indicators PowerPoint Slides

Articulating Programmatic Impacts
Dr. Carl Evensen

Program Impacts PowerPoint Slides

Readings

• Moore, K. A., Brown, B. V., & Scarupa, H. J. (2003). The Uses (and Misuses) of Social Indicators: Implications for Public Policy. Child Trends Research Brief, 2003(01). Retrieved from http://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2003/02/child_trends-2003_02_01_rb_useandmisuse.pdf
• Lippman, L. H. (2007). Indicators and indices of child well-being: A brief American history. Social Indicators Research, 83(1), 39-53.
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• Documenting Outcomes in Tobacco Control Programs. (2005). Retrieved from http://manualzz.com/doc/13941780/documenting-outcomes-in-tobacco-control-programs
• O'Neill, B. (1998). Money talks: Documenting the economic impact of Extension personal finance programs. Journal of Extension, 36(5), n5.
• Deshler, D. (n.d.). Chapter 11 - Evaluating extension programmes. Retrieved from http://www.fao.org/docrep/W5830E/w5830e0d.htm
• Diem, K. G. (2003). Program development in a political world—it’s all about impact. Journal of Extension, 41(1). Retrieved from http://www.joe.org/joe/2003february/a6.php
• Rossi, P. H., Lipsey, M. W., & Freeman, H. E. (2004). Chapter 7: Measuring and Monitoring Program Outcomes. In Evaluation: A systematic approach (7th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/israelvc12/evaluation-a-systematic-approachrossilipseyfreeman

Assignments

• Complete Quiz 10
• Complete Discussion 11

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