Samples and Types of Products We Can Provide
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Public Evaluation Reports  PEER requests shared ownership of tools, data, and products between clients and evaluators as a way to promote the growth and development of place-based education and related sustainability and community health fields. To that end, a partial list of most of the products we have generated for clients is available for viewing.
Evaluation Products Customized To Your Intended Use The content and format of evaluation products should be specifically tailored to the audience and purpose for which it will be used. Some examples include:
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A full year of multiple-methods investigation boiled down into a one page summary of findings for review by the board of directors. |
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A creative combination of literature review and new data collection, targeted at a narrowly defined topic of great interest to the program staff (i.e. program replication). |
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Technical analysis of standardized test scores and other measures of student academic achievement. |
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A PowerPoint developed to pull four years of findings across six different programs into a user-friendly summary for practitioners. |
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An evaluation of a week long training effort that functioned as a pilot for program development. |
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Executive Summary of long term evaluation strategy for a large federal agency, created largely by agency personnel but with strong behind the scenes support and guidance from PEER. |
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• A logic model or theory of change spells out the connections between what a program does and the subsequent, intended program effects. Creating a logic model helps program staff define, refine, and clearly articulate what makes their program special. Here are a couple of logic models that clients developed with support from PEER: CMP Logic Model, LREC Logic Model, NPS I&E Logic Model
• Sometimes, instead of a formal written report, it is most useful for program staff to have in depth success-finding or problem-solving conversations with evaluators based on evaluators’ more informal, subjective impressions. These reports typically have limited distribution. |
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"I’d just like to say that I really, truly appreciate how thorough, thoughtful, well organized, and accessible this [evaluation report] is. With the amount of information here, I think it would have been VERY possible to put together a real snoozer of a document. This is anything but that!" - Ray Coffee Essex CHIPS, VT |
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