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User Friendly Evaluation

User Friendly Evaluation. C. Jeff Woods, Ph.D. Decisions to Make. When Approaching an Evaluation. Summative vs Formative. Summative: Is this working out? Formative: How can we improve?. What are you evaluating?. Achievement of a-priori goals

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User Friendly Evaluation

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  1. User Friendly Evaluation C. Jeff Woods, Ph.D.

  2. Decisions to Make When Approaching an Evaluation

  3. Summative vs Formative • Summative: Is this working out? • Formative: How can we improve?

  4. What are you evaluating? • Achievement of a-priori goals • All results including both anticipated and unanticipated • Decisions made by key people • Effects on people, community, etc. • Contributions to organizational mission/vision

  5. What type of method? • Qualitative (will surface unknown content) • Observation • Interviews • Focus Groups • Quantitative (will only reveal “how many”) • Measurements • Surveys & instruments • Document analysis

  6. Program Evaluation (Kathleen Cahalan) • Conditions • Goals • Objectives • Results • Impacts

  7. Conditions • Needs • Problems • Questions • Issues • Opportunities

  8. Goals: • What the project will accomplish in relationship to a condition previously defined

  9. Objectives: • What must take place for each goal to be reached?

  10. Results (outputs) • Events • Products • (Side effects) (me)

  11. Impacts (outcomes) • Initial – immediate benefit accruing from participation • Intermediate - changes in knowledge, attitudes, skills, and behaviors that establish new patterns of thinking and behaving • Long term - changes in identity

  12. Personnel Evaluation • Self-generated… • Goals • Analysis • Plans for improvement • …Work best

  13. Congregational Evaluations • Mission/Vision Audits • Evaluation of specific programs • Core values development • Assessment tools…

  14. Congregational Assessment Demographic Tools • Claritas • www.connect.claritas.com (Demographic data & PRIZM lifestyle segmentation reports) • Percept • www.perceptnet.com (Demographic data & religious preferences reports) • Census Bureau • www.census.gov (see TIGER mapping service)

  15. Congregational Assessment Ministry Analysis Tools • Natural Church Development (800-253-4276) • Faith Communities Today (860-509-9543) • Twelve Keys to an Effective Church (Book by Kennon Callahan) • The Complete Ministry Audit & Facing Reality (Easum & Bandy)

  16. Measure new things…

  17. Spiritual Growth: • How many people are in Sunday School? • How many people are in small groups? • How many people are in one to one discipleship relationships? • How many people are in home/neighborhood Bible studies?

  18. Committees and Ministries • How do they differ? • What is the ratio between the two? • What type of people serve on each? • Should any be abandoned?

  19. How many people hours each week are spent in: • Worship • Private devotions • Ministry • Learning • Community ministry • Caring for one another

  20. In the last 10 years, how many • Seminarians? • Lay Pastor enrollees? • New church planters? • Missionaries? • Mission trips? • Laity at continuing education events?

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