5.2 Shared Measurement Systems As a team, and possibly within individual subteams if your team has gone this route, you need to determine how you will measure success. What types of data are you going to use to determine if you are making a difference? How will you access that data? Who will access the data and when? Your team will need to identify the specific measures they need to watch as they work towards progress for their common agenda. From a logic model perspective, as well as in the context of the Impact Collaborative Project Roadmap, the shared measurement systems are what you identify as evaluation measures. However, it is important that evaluation be an ongoing process and not just something that occurs at the end of the project which often happens in our traditional programming using logic models. In addition, all members need to be involved in this constant evaluation. The questions identified above should help to provide an environment of ongoing evaluation.
Action Item 3:
How will the team measure success? What data already exists? What data will you need to collect? How will you access the data? Who will access the data? How frequently will you check progress?
Part of issue being measured
Data to be used?
Who will monitor data?
How frequently will the team check progress?
5.3 Mutually Reinforcing Activities How will your team and sub-teams achieve their work? Part of the definition of the engaged model of program delivery emphasizes that programming in an engaged model is ongoing and that methods emphasize active learning. The emphasis on active learning may mean rethinking how you deliver educational content. As a team you will want to think about the best method to achieve what needs to be accomplished related to the work that is being undertaken. For both the Impact Collaborative Project Roadmap, as well as in terms of a logic model, these items relate to the activities and engagements associated with a program. These may include workshops, providing curriculum online, in face-to-face settings, in places where target audiences will interact with it best, development of new services, and a host of tools that can be used to increase getting information and services to audiences where they can use it most effectively. Other means may be mentoring programs, providing opportunities for people to practice what they have learned, etc. New technologies, including customized smartphone apps, provide opportunities that were not available five years ago. In Extension, we often classify goals based on short, medium and long-term outcomes. Radhakrishna, Olson & Chaudhary (2017) developed a model for linking desired outcomes to educational delivery methods. These methods are linked to the educational models developed by Bloom, Dale, and Bennett. This may be a useful tool in considering how you will move audiences from short (knowledge, awareness, skills, attitudes & aspirations) to medium (behavior change) outcomes.
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