Planning and Implementing an EE Evaluation

This group of webpages on environmental education evaluation planning and implantation is assembled as "My Environmental Education Evaluation Resource Assistant” (MEERA) by the School of Natural Resources and Environment of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. It is an online "evaluation consultant" designed to assist with evaluation design and to point to resources for evaluating an environmental education programme.

It introduces evaluation with a discussion of the following questions:

"What is evaluation?

Why should I evaluate my program?

What type of evaluation should I conduct and when?

What makes a good evaluation?

How do I make evaluation an integral part of my program?

How can I learn more?"

It offers process evaluation steps:

• "Welcome to the Process of Evaluation
  
• Step 1: Before You Get Started
  
• Step 2: Clarify Program Logic
  
• Step 3: Set Goals and Indicators
  
• Step 4: Choose Design and Tools
  
• Step 5: Collect Data
  
• Step 6: Analyze Data
  
• Step 7: Report Results
  
• Step 8: Improve Program"
  

..and related topics:

• "Finding and Working with an Evaluator
  
• Evaluation Consent and the Institutional Review Board Process
  
• Participatory Evaluation
  
• Outcomes and Impacts
  
• Types of Evaluation Designs
  
• Using Power Analysis to Determine Quantitative Sample Size
  
• Lessons from the Field"
  

MEERA also offers a database of sample evaluations of environmental education programmes and invites the sharing of additional examples through the email address in the contact information below.