Purposes of Evaluation Why evaluate? • Accountability: Justify trust of stakeholders (funders, parents, citizens) by showing program results (Summative) • Program Improvement: Demonstrate how things are working and where it needs to be improved (Formative)
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Purposes of Evaluation Why evaluate? Accountability: Justify trust of stakeholders (funders, parents, citizens) by showing program results (Summative)
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Purposes of Evaluation
Why evaluate?
• Accountability: Justify trust of stakeholders (funders, parents, citizens) by showing program results (Summative)
• Program Improvement: Demonstrate how things are working and where it needs to be improved (Formative)
Purposes of Evaluation
Why evaluate?
• Strengthening Relationships: Evaluators/Leaders better understand audience by planning, listening to needs, experiences, outcomes; Youth better understand evaluators/ leaders/program by building trust and understanding
• Building Capacity: Program organization, leaders, and participants gain skills and insights by reflecting on program quality and impact
Purposes of Evaluation
Why evaluate?
• Innovation: Program leaders and participants generate new ideas about or beyond the program through reflecting on it
Purposes of Evaluation
When programs begin by…• Strengthening Relationships…building trust and
understanding…they initiate a listening process for…• Improving Programs…learning from what we experience in
programs…that leads to organizations and individuals…• Building Capacity…growing deeper skills and broader
perspectives needed for higher quality programs…• Demonstrating Accountability (Outcomes)…achieving goals
targeted by program designs, expected by stakeholders, and…• Spawning Innovation…inspiring leaders and participants to
go beyond current programs and results and create new opportunities