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Resource for Questionnaires
“Collecting Evaluation Data: End-of-Meeting Questionnaires”:  The University of Wisconsin Extension has this relatively new booklet that is available on line at: 

http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/Evaluation/evaluat.html

Click on the title (toward the end of the list), and a pdf document will be generated.  There are all kinds of potential scenarios and examples instruments for each.  Major Sections are: Participant Reactions; Teaching and Facilitation; Outcomes; Future Programming; and Participant Background.  This document is authored by Ellen Taylor Powell and Marcus Renner. 
 
 

Patricia House is currently a 4-H Youth Development Agent in Clark County.  When the following program was conducted she was an Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent/4-H Youth Development Agent in Franklin County.  The impact of her pond management programs is showing...

Program Description:
Landowners, subdivision homeowners and farm pond owners all struggle with maintaining a balanced pond ecosystem.  Pond management information and technical advice is needed by pond owners to decrease mismanagement of this natural resource.  Youth enjoy exploring ponds as a recreation outlet.

Program Impact:
Ponds provide an economic, recreation, educational and aesthetic value for their owners and users. These benefits can be seriously impacted when ponds are left unmanaged. Eighty percent of the clients served by OSU Extension, Franklin County pond management information expressed greater ability to diagnosing future problems.  Over 100 pond owners were assisted with aquatic weed management issues via phone, one-on-one site visits, weed identification and fact sheets. 

FIve school/recreation sites were assisted with technical and educational programming options for using existing ponds for outdoor learning laboratories.  Twenty adults and 75 youth were involved in assessing pond sites as learning laboratories and developing an educational and management plan for their school site.
 

This program description and impact statement was taken from URS.
 

PDETip:

Statistics On-line Reference Book

Forget where you put that old graduate school statistics book?  Maybe you never had one, OR maybe you used it for kindling!!  Anyway, you can have a statistics book at your fingertips at:

http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html

This is as easy-to-read and follow as anything in statistics can be.  You might want to click on the Nonparametric Statistics button at this site.  Nonparametric stats provide much valuable information, are relatively easy to use, are more applicable to most of what we do in Extension, and are more understandable.
 

PDE Calendar:
 

Date	Time	Event/Locations	Contact
8/30/02	N/A	Update your 2002 URS Report	Debby Lewis lewis.205@osu.edu
9/5/02	10 am - 3 pm	Getting Started with SPSS for Windows	Annie Berry berry.7@osu.edu
9/16/02	N/A	Next Issue of U2CANEVALU8	Tom Archer archer.3@osu.edu
10/24/02	10 am - 3 pm	Establishing the Foundation:  Identifying the Basics in Program Development and Evaluation	Tom Archer archer.3@osu.edu
1/15/03	N/A	Deadline for 2002 URS entries	Debby Lewis lewis.205@osu.edu