ANR CE Program Evaluation

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UCCE Program Development and Evaluation Capacity Building Trainings 2025

WHAT: Online interactive trainings to help with planning your programs/projects, engaging California communities, civil rights compliance, and evaluating your programs and assessing their impact. These trainings highlight UCCE examples. For 2025, we have added a few brown bag sessions to showcase tech tools and best practices for evaluation planning. This is a 15-part series offered a la carte, select whichever interests you or take the complete series!  

HOSTED by:  UC ANR Program Planning and Evaluation; UCCE Evaluation Specialist Vikram Koundinya; UC ANR Climate Smart Academic Coordinator Samuel Ikendi; the UC ANR Office of Diversity & Inclusion; UC Master Gardener Program Evaluation Coordinator Jocelyn Mobley; and UC ANR Informatics and GIS Program (IGIS).

We are pleased to share we received the 2024 American Evaluation Association Extension Education Evaluation Team Award for Evaluation Capacity Building!

WHEN: Tuesdays and some Thursdays August 5th through October 7th. See dates and times below! 

WHO should attend:  CE academics, community educators, and other program staff. NEW CE Advisors, academics, County Directors, and regional program supervisors are highly encouraged; taking the entire series can build overall program development competencies and is encouraged.

Registration coming soon!

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Conducting a Needs Assessment 8/5 (10AM-12PM)

Katherine Webb-Martinez 

Vikram Koundinya

With UCCE Advisor guest speakers

  • Understanding of needs assessments basics (why, what, how, when)
  • Understanding of how to write good needs assessment questions
  • Understanding of how to use the findings to inform how you focus and develop your program
  • Feedback on your needs assessment approach or on your draft instrument/questions 
Using Delphi Method for Needs Assessment8/12 (10AM - 12PM)

Vikram Koundinya

Katherine Webb-Martinez

Guest Speakers:  Colby Silvert (Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, University of Maryland), Parmveer Singh (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Saskatchewan), and Julia Van Soelen-Kim (UCCE Advisor) & Yulia Lamoureaux (PhD Candidate, Geography Graduate Group, UC Davis)

  • Understand how Delphi method can be used in needs assessment
  • Understand how Delphi method can be adapted for different situations
  • Learn how Delphi method was used in three research and evaluation studies
Brown Bag: GIS Methods for Needs Assessment8/14 (12PM-1PM)

Priyanka Vyas

Andy Lyons

  • Skills to apply spatial thinking in conducting their needs assessment
  • Understanding of tools to obtain secondary data for a geographic area of interest
  • Ability to create a custom map of a geographic area with relevant layers of interest
Practical Methods to Measuring Outcomes 8/19
(10AM-noon)

Katherine Webb-Martinez 

Vikram Koundinya 

With UCCE Advisor guest speakers  

  • Understanding of how to define program theory and connect to UC ANR’s condition changes and public values
  • Experience defining outcomes and measurable indicators and using a program logic model
  • Understanding of options for evaluation data collection methods to measure program participant outcomes
  • A draft evaluation plan
Brown Bag: Best Practices for Writing Strong Evaluation Plans for Grant Proposals8/21
(Noon-1PM)

Vikram Koundinya

Samuel Ikendi

Greta Landis (Evaluation Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension), Guest Speaker

  • Understanding of the importance of developing a strong evaluation plan in a grant proposals
  • Understanding of best practices for writing evaluation plans in grant proposals
  • Understanding of real life examples for the shared best practices
  • Understanding of how a strong evaluation plan is written and implemented
Navigating Institutional Review Board (IRB)8/26
(10AM-noon)

Jennifer Sedell

Katherine Webb-Martinez

Kit Alviz 

With UCCE Advisor guest speakers

  • Understanding what the IRB is
  • Understanding of how to locate and navigate IRB decision-making tools
  • Understanding of common forms and processes
  • Understanding the basic steps of navigating required trainings
  • Awareness of common experiences UC ANR academics across different program areas and position types
  • Practical tips from UC ANR peers on navigating IRB submissions and reviews
Defining Clientele & Civil Rights Compliance Planning9/2 (10AM-noon)

Kit Alviz 

David White

Priyanka Vyas

Jocelyn Mobley

With recorded examples from UCCE professionals

  • Understanding of how-to define clientele groups and strategies for collecting baseline data
  • Understanding of civil rights compliance goal examples
  • Hands on experience using Project Board or Statewide Program data to track annual progress against goals.
  • Understanding of examples of how to collect race, ethnicity and gender data from program participants
Improving All Reasonable Effort and Engagement with New Audiences9/4
(10AM-noon)
 

Kit Alviz 

David White

Guest speaker: Elizabeth Moon 

  • Understanding of programmatic strategies to conduct All Reasonable Effort
  • Understanding of how to demonstrate compliance via All Reasonable Effort documentation
  • Understanding of programmatic strategies UCCE employs to increase opportunities for program participation
  • Understanding how to tally and report audience attendance and demographics into an online reporting system
  • Understanding of policy changes related to contact reporting (e.g., collecting race/ethnicity/gender using self-identification forms only, gender category changes) 
Best Practices in Developing and Running Focus Groups9/9 (10AM-noon)

Jen Sedell

Christina Becker

Vikram Koundinya

Samuel Ikendi

  • Understanding when and why to conduct focus groups as part of needs assessments and evaluations
  • Understanding of the best practices for designing focus groups for needs assessments and evaluations
  • Hands-on experience developing a focus group protocol
  • Practical tips on conducting focus groups
Best Practices for Developing Surveys & Basics of Sampling Methods9/11
(10AM-noon)

Vikram Koundinya

Samuel Ikendi

Kit Alviz

Jocelyn Mobley

Guest Speakers: To be confirmed

  • Understanding of the best practices for designing online and paper surveys
  • Hands on experience developing good survey questions
  • Understanding of some online survey bot mitigation and detection methods
  • Understanding of different outcome measurement survey designs
  • Understanding of different survey sampling methods and when to use them
Using Ripple Effects Mapping (REM) Method in Program Evaluation9/16 (10AM-noon)

Vikram Koundinya

Kit Alviz

Guest Speakers: Yu Meng (UCCE Advisor), Greta Landis (Evaluation Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension), Devii Rao (UCCE Advisor)

  • Understanding of how to use REM in assessing the impact of extension programs
  • Hands-on experience of REM method using an example case
Brown Bag: GIS Methods for Outcome Evaluation9/18 (Noon-1PM)

Priyanka Vyas

Andy Lyons

  • Skills to apply spatial techniques to evaluate program outcomes
  • Understanding of factors driving geographic variation in program outcomes
  • Ability to identify different sources of spatial and contextual data to evaluate program outcomes
Methods to Analyze Surveys: Continuous Quantitative Data (Analyzing and Presenting Pre-Post Evaluation Survey Data)9/23 (10AM-noon)

Samuel Ikendi

Kit Alviz

  • Understanding of measures of central tendency and variability
  • Hands-on experience analyzing and reporting frequency distribution in pre/post tests using Excel
  • Understanding of different types of mean difference tests
  • Hands-on experience running a paired or dependent samples t-test in Excel, interpreting the results, and reporting the findings
  • Understanding of levels of quantitative data (e.g., nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)
Methods to Analyze Surveys: Qualitative Data9/30 (10AM-noon)

Jennifer Sedell

Christina Becker

  • Understanding of types of qualitative analysis that can be done on open-ended survey data for program evaluation
  • Hands-on experience of coding qualitative data and extracting themes using Excel, and reporting the findings
  • Practice identifying a mixed methods design to evaluate a program
Writing Strong Impact Statements10/7 (10AM-noon)

Katherine Webb-Martinez

Christina Becker

Representative from Academic Assembly Council Personnel Committee

  • Experience organizing your program activities into themes using condition changes
  • Experience connecting your project/program outcomes to condition changes and public values
  • Understanding of how to write strong impact statements

Looking for recordings of previous trainings? Check out the videos for all the 2024 trainings