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Defining & Reporting Our Successes

Defining & Reporting Our Successes. Outputs, Outcomes and Impacts. Desired Outcomes. Understanding the Importance of Defining & Reporting Outcomes Understanding of the Differences between Outputs, Outcomes and Impacts Understanding the Types of Outcomes

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Defining & Reporting Our Successes

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  1. Defining & ReportingOur Successes Outputs, Outcomes and Impacts

  2. Desired Outcomes • Understanding the Importance of Defining & Reporting Outcomes • Understanding of the Differences between Outputs, Outcomes and Impacts • Understanding the Types of Outcomes • Understanding of How to Use DANRIS-X to Record Outcomes

  3. The Importance of Outcomes? • Program Development • Maintain and improve the quality of our programs • Accountability • Demonstrate individual accountability for providing effective services • Demonstrate organizational accountability for use of public funds

  4. Program Action: Logic Model Outcomes Activities/ Outputs Knowledge & Behavior Situation Inputs Impacts Identify Problem or Need Invest Staff, Volunteers, Money, Materials Deliver Products or Services Change in Program Participants Change to Population or Area

  5. Invasive Species: Yellow Star Thistle Outcomes Activities/ Outputs Knowledge/ Behavior Impacts Situation Inputs Yellow star thistle causing loss of rangeland & ecosystem damage Staff, Money, Materials, Research base on control and eradication • Workshops • for ranchers • & land • managers • Publications • Ranchers • gain increased • knowledge about • Yellow star thistle • Ranchers adopt • new control • practices, such as • parasitic wasps • & controlled • burns • Improved • health of • ecosystems & • native species • Reduction in • acres lost of • rangeland

  6. Outputs in DANRIS-X: What did you deliver? • Direct Extension Methods • Classes, Workshops, Field Days • Indirect Extension Methods • Newsletter, Websites, Articles • Research and Creative Activity Methods • Basic/Applied Research, Videos, Curricula • Publications

  7. Types of Outcomes in DANRIS-X: What is the desired change? • Change in Knowledge • Change in Attitude/Intention • Change in Skill • Change in Behavior or Practice • Change in Social/Health Condition • Change in Economic Condition • Change in Environmental/Physical Condition

  8. Main Types of Outcomes • Short-term changes ~ Learning Outcomes • Knowledge • Attitude • Skill • Medium-term changes ~ Action Outcomes • Behavior • Practice • Long-term changes ~ Condition Outcomes (Impacts) • Social/Health • Economic • Environmental

  9. Learning Outcomes • Knowledge • 90% of program participants gain knowledge of 5 techniques for water conservation • Attitude/Intention • 60% of program participants are more willing to use recommended techniques for water conservation • Skill • 80% program participants gain the ability to implement water conserving techniques

  10. Action Outcomes • Behavior • 50% of program participants now conserve water • Practice • 60% program participants adopted at least one of the recommended water conservation practices

  11. Condition Outcomes • Social/Health • 20% increase in voluntary compliance to water conservation regulations by residents in Placer County • Economic • Average reduction of 10% in monthly spending on water for Mendocino County grape growers • Environmental/Physical • 5% reduction in water usage in Shasta County

  12. Steps for Defining an Outcome: • What? • Choose type of change • Describe specific change • Quantify change, if possible • Who? • Describe the group/area that was affected • Quantify group affected Ex. 50 Pest Control Advisors, private consultants, family farmers, field managers will gain 3 skills to identify key pests in field cropping systems.

  13. How do we track our successes? We measure: • Outputs • Outcomes

  14. Resources • University of Wisconsin Extension • www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande • Penn State Cooperative Extension • http://www.extension.psu.edu/evaluation/ • American Evaluation Association • www.eval.org • Logic Model Development Guide • http://ucanr.org/logicmodeldevelopment

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