Evaluating a Weed and Seed Strategy

By Roehl, Jan

Book Id: WPLBN0000084009
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.3 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Evaluating a Weed and Seed Strategy
Author:	Roehl, Jan
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Economic & political studies
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Government Printing Office
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Description
Government Reference Publication

Excerpt
Excerpt: Everyone with a stake in a local Weed and Seed strategy has an interest in knowing whether the program is operating as intended and whether it is effective and worthwhile for designated neighborhoods and individuals. Accurate information is vital for understanding the success or failure of a Weed and Seed strategy, and is essential for anyone wanting to expand or replicate activities that work, or fix ones that don't. Program administrators responsible for managing Weed and Seed’s many technical aspects also must provide information to the Executive Office for Weed and Seed (EOWS) and other supporting agencies to enable them to judge whether their resources are being well spent. These interests can be met through comprehensive local Weed and Seed evaluations. A comprehensive evaluation includes a process evaluation that describes how the program operates and whether it is operating as you and other stakeholders intended it to operate, as well as an impact evaluation, which describes how well your program operates and whether it is effective in reaching stated goals.

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Why Evaluate Your Weed and Seed Strategy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Evaluation in Five Easy Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Challenges of Evaluating a Weed and Seed Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Planning an Evaluation of Weed and Seed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Goals and objectives, logic models, design, working with an evaluator, resources Figure 1: Simplified Conceptual Framework for Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Conducting the Process Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Table 1: Blueprint for Program Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Table 2: Blueprint for Program Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Assessing Program Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Table 3: Blueprint for Assessing Program Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Putting it all Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Additional Evaluation Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Sample Observation Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Sample Community Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21