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Six Tips for Writing Your BFRDP Proposal Evaluation Plan
The GREW Project, a Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (BFRDP) funded project to support organizations to do evaluation, would like to share some ideas for developing evaluation plans for your BFRDP. We’ve come up with some key points to think about when working on your evaluation plan. 1. Follow the RFA instructions. This is key. Always…
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Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Evaluation Resources: 12 New Items in the GREW Project Evaluation Resource Library
We have recently added 12 new articles, webinars, and websites to our Online Evaluation Resource Library that feature information related to incorporating equity, inclusion, and diversity into evaluation work. In this document we highlight three examples from our library as a starting point for your explorations. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Extension Evaluation (Webinar) This webinar with…
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Surveys, Assessments and Other Evaluation Tools used by Beginning Farmer Training Programs
The GREW Beginning Farmer Program Evaluation Resource Library aims to support farmer and rancher training programs by sharing resources to help them with their evaluation goals. The library contains hundreds of resources focused on running effective and thorough program evaluations. Some resources focus explicitly on farming projects and others provide more general program evaluation instruction. We have…
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Resources for Using Self-Assessment as a Learning and Evaluation Strategy
Self-assessment is when learners assess their own performance or skills in order to make desired improvements (McMillan & Hearn, 2008). Self-assessment in beginning farmer programs can help improve learning outcomes for participants and serve programs as an evaluation tool. More specifically, it can help beginning farmers and ranchers (BFR) more clearly identify their learning needs…
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Basic Evaluation Tools and Resources
There are many, many resources available on the web to help people conduct program evaluation. It can be somewhat overwhelming to wade through them all. To make the process simpler, we have highlighted a few key documents. These items offer basic information and guidance for different aspects of conducting evaluation. Evaluation Planning Logic Models/Theories of…
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Resources for Conducting Follow Up Evaluation
Do you need ideas for checking back in with past participants of your programs? The GREW Project has several resources to assist you with conducting follow up evaluation, including webinars, data collection tools, and budgets. Webinars There are three archived webinars where beginning farmer and rancher programs share their experience with conducting follow up evaluations. These…