Extension Education Evaluation Topical Interest Group
of the
Annual Business Meeting
November 8, 2001: 5:00 – 6:00 PM
St. Louis, MO
Annual Report, November 2001
Communication. The EEE Board met in person at the AEA meeting in Hawaii and four other times during the year by Conference Call to decide next year’s topics for presentation, to evaluate and select proposals for presentations for the upcoming conference, to select awards and to decide a process for outreach. Additionally, the EEE TIG has its own list serv and the Board communicated with its members (N=178) at least twice each month over the past year, 2000-2001 (see below).
New Initiative. 1. To increase our sense of community between AEA Conferences and to share resources, the Board initiated an e-forum called Hear It From The Board. Each month, a different Board member developed an evaluation idea relevant to extension and presented it on the EEE listserv as a contribution to Hear It From The Board. Over the year, the e-forum reflected a range of ideas-- some theoretical, some practical that members could used their evaluation work. Many of these pieces have received kudos from members of the TIG for their practicality; many have been circulated by members to community leaders, administrators, county agents and students throughout the country. Some have been developed further for other reasons: one has been requested for publication by a journal (July); one has been accepted for a presentation (February). This year’s contributions listed below have been posted by Milton Fujii from the University of California on the EEE TIG web site at:
http://danr.ucop.edu/eee-aea/Hear_it_From_the_Board.html
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January, 2001 February, 2001
March, 2001 April, 2001 May, 2001
June, 2001 July, 2001 August, 2001
September, 2001 |
Is anyone listening? To Extension? Helping Educators Document and Communicate Impact: Evaluation Theory + A Dose of Politics = A Powerful Learning Experience Is translating the questionnaire good enough? Keeping the Cart in Front of the Horse Is the EEE-TIG Achieving Its Goals Across the Breadth of Cooperative Extension? We Are Not Your Father's Extension System! Building Evaluation Up --- A Day in the Life of an Evaluator On Institutional Review and Human Subjects Use or Why Do Extension Faculty Need To Make An IRB Application?
Valuing Success Stories in Program Evaluation |
New Initiative. 2. Beginning with ideas generated by Claude Bennett at the business meeting in Hawaii, the EEE TIG members voted to take concrete steps to promote inclusion in EEE and the American Evaluation Association of staff from the 1994 Tribal Colleges and the 1890 Extension System. As a first step this year, Michael Newman drafted a new brochure and the Board voted on its new graphics and message and during the upcoming months. EEE members will use this brochure as a vehicle to encourage participation in AEA by members of these other educational institutions. A second step was taken recently. The Board reviewed and then communicated to its members, an announcement from CSREES about a professional opportunity for extension evaluators—to make a presentation about evaluation at an upcoming conference for administrators of the 1994 Tribal Colleges. Other steps to promote inclusion are imminent.
AEA 2001 Conference Activities. The EEE will conduct a panel, four multi-paper sessions at AEA involving 10 presentations, and, several posters. The EEE will conduct elections of new officers, grant awards, and hold a business meeting at AEA at which Kenneth Pigg, Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of MO will speak on WHAT PURPOSE DOES EVALUATION SERVE WHEN THE PROGRAM IS POORLY DESIGNED? a challenge to mainstreaming. The EEE will also hold a social dinner on Wednesday evening of AEA for members and friends.
Respectfully submitted,
Nancy Ellen Kiernan, Ph.D.
Program Evaluator, Penn State
EEE-TIG, Chair 2000-2001