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Monday, March 20, 2006

Monitoring and Reporting--LSTSTC

1. What kinds of reports will you generate to capture the data necessary to write the evaluations?

Implementation status reports for current projects, website, community contacts, program development
Periodic evaluations
Financial Updates

2. To help you think about the reporting system you will design, answer the following questions:

What kinds of information will you need to capture?

Quantitative data: number of faculty; number of students; number of organizations; persons benefiting from projects; survey for students; survey for faculty; survey for community orgs.
Qualitative data: student reflections; faculty reflections, community org. questionnaires

How will you capture that information? (What forms will you use? Will you have to create these forms yourself? In what ways will you capture the information? When will this information have to be collected and analyzed?)

Surveys for faculty, students, community orgs need to be created; Forms for reflection need to be created, distributed and collected
Pre-post test; track growth of FAQ

Who will capture this information? How long will it take?
Website can help capture information; webCT; program directors, secretarial staff; will take ½ semester to one semester to compile and then another semester to report;
Information from mid-semester can be used to make improvements, modifications

What ongoing information and reports will you be required to monitor and evaluate?

Surveys and reflection forms for faculty, students and community orgs

How and when will you incorporate what you have learned into the project?
At midsemester and end of semester

What information and reports (if any) will you have to generate that will be required by others—local groups, government, sponsors, consortium partners, stakeholders, and so on.
How many involved; what projects used; program implementation status reports; training developed; how many trained

For whom will various reports be written? What information will these groups need and how will they use that information?

Reports written for internal audience; what sponsor requires ????

Who will write these reports and how much time will it take?
The program directors with the help of secretarial staff; how much time—2 weeks?

1 Comments:

Blogger Rich said...

So you have formative and summative reports, and they directly demonstrate how you will know you're making progress. Is there a direct visible correlation between budget items and these periodic evaluations? How does one measure the success for the other?

How will the information you collect help you in future grants you may wish to pursue?

What survey tool will you use? If you'd like to use survey tools from TTU, that can be arranged. We have access to some great online survey tools that will collect and display the data for you.

Do you need human subjects review information if you plan to collect certain types of data? That is, is there an office there that protects students' rights for certain kinds of study? This is what Colette Solpietro does at TTU.

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