Submit Assignment 4.1: Your Evaluation Plan
• Evaluation begins before the program starts; in other words, before you begin your program you have a rough plan in place for how you’ll be measuring the desired outcomes in your participants.
• Evaluation is on-going. Throughout your program, you’ll check with your plan to see how it’s progressing, and perhaps modify it if you want more information.
• Evaluation includes at least three methods; this helps to strengthen validity.
• Evaluation is unbiased, objective, and neutral.
Using the above guidelines, your assignment is to create a document showing a proposed evaluation plan for your garden-based learning program. You may wish to refer back to your logic model, created in Week 2, to review your garden outcomes. Your evaluation toolkit can be in the form of a text document or spreadsheet. It should include the following:
- At least three different evaluation methods for validity
- Which of your proposed outcomes you want to evaluate
- When in your program you will use each evaluation methods
-Who will conduct each evaluation
At this point you can simply name the type of evaluation method you will use, but if you plan to adapt any of the sample tools from Cornell's GBL website you may list those as well.