Download or read book Analyzing Impacts of Extension Programs written by Claude F. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Analyzing Impacts of Extension Programs written by Claude F. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Analyzing Impacts of Extension Programs Classic Reprint written by Claude F. Bennett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Analyzing Impacts of Extension Programs The major purpose of program evaluation is to assist in reaching decisions on. Future directions, design, and funding of programs.3 Decisions on whether programs should be terminated, curtailed, maintained, or expanded are aided by program evaluations. Such evaluations may also suggest reformulation of program objectives, strategy, delivery-organiza tion, educational methodology, and intended audiences. This publication identifies seven broad categories of criteria which are useful in formally evaluating the effectiveness of Extension programs and attempts to provide guidance in choosing evidence regarding these categories. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Evaluation of Economic and Social Consequences of Cooperative Extension Programs written by United States. Science and Education Administration and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Developing Procedures for Evaluating the Impact of Extension Programs written by Cecil E. Carter and published by . This book was released on 1979* with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proposed and Completed Studies to Evaluate Local and Multi county Extension Programs written by Claude F. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1974* with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Review and Appraisal of Studies of Extension Program Effectiveness Final report written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exploring the Level of Evidence of Impact Collected Through Program Evaluation by Cooperative Extension as Published in the Journal of Extension written by Jeffrey Dale Workman and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Documenting evidence of impact demonstrates that organizations and programs are making a difference and/or accomplishing something positive. The results of a program must ultimately change people's attitudes or behavior, or benefit society in other ways (Diem, 1997). As competition increases and the availability of financial resources decreases, the U.S. Cooperative Extension System must document evidence of impact to demonstrate that it's worth funding. In general, Extension programs which utilize program evaluation in the form of outcome studies do not document impact by collecting real evidence of behavior change and/or greater end results that benefit societal conditions through social, economic, civic, or environmental improvement. Traditionally, the criticism of evaluation in Extension has been that evaluators have simply reported on the number and demographics of the people who participated (Gentry-Van Laanen & Nies, 1995). The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the level of evidence of impact collected through program evaluation (outcome studies) by the Cooperative Extension System as published in the Journal of Extension (JOE); and to examine any potential relationships between the documentation of evidence of impact with reach (size of audience), richness (detail and depth of interaction), and geographic scope. Articles reviewed in JOE were those listed under the headings of 'Feature Articles' and 'Research in Brief' during 1965-69, 1975-79, 1985-89, 1995-99, and 2005-09. This study utilized a form of quantitative content analysis where data was collected and coded using qualitative methods and analyzed via quantitative techniques. Two evaluation tools were used for this study. Bennett's Hierarchy was utilized because it was considered to be the simplest, easiest to understand, and contained the most applicable description of different levels of evidence of impact. The University of Wisconsin-Extension logic model format was also included because it was considered to be the more contemporary and predominant tool currently used when documenting and describing results from Extension programming. There were a total of 1,246 articles investigated in which 302 were selected for data collection. This investigation clearly showed that the number of evaluative studies with outcome data has increased going from 16 articles in the 1960s to 150 articles in the 2000s. The findings indicated that 88.5% of the articles documented evidence above the level of participation, almost two-thirds were measuring outcomes, about one-third were measuring evidence of substantial impact, and 5.6% documented "real or actual" impact. The relationships of reach of richness with level of evidence were low at best, and the relationship with geographic scope was very low. It is highly likely that Extension programs make a tremendous positive difference in the lives of individuals and their communities and Extension greatly benefits society as a whole, but more program evaluation with evidence of higher-level impact is needed to support this argument. It is also likely that funding becomes more limited and much more competitive in the future. Those organizations who have real documented evidence of their worth and merit will be the ones that receive the funding and continue to exist in the future.

Download or read book Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-08-19 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their inception in 1862, the U.S. land grant colleges have evolved to become the training ground for the nation's and the world's agriculturists. In this book, the committee examines the future of the colleges of agriculture in light of changing national priorities for the agricultural, food, and natural resource system. The effects of federal funding constraints also are examined, as are opportunities for growth presented by developments in science. The committee's preceding volume, Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities: A Profile, is a compilation of the data that helped formulate the specific questions to be addressed. Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Univerisities: Public Service and Public Policy is the deliberative report, rating conclusions and recommendations for institutional innovation and public policy. It addresses these and other questions: What education mission should colleges of agriculture adoptâ€"and what strategies should they useâ€"in light of significant changes in the agricultural complex? Research in agriculture is expected to respond to consumer demands, environmental concerns, world population growth, and increasing pressure on agricultural lands. Is the century-old structure of land grant university-based research up to the task? What is the role of extension in light of today's smaller farming communities and larger farming conglomerates? This volume is the culmination of a landmark evaluation of land grant colleges of agriculture, an American institution. This document will be of value to policymakers, administrators, and others involved in agricultural science and education.

Download or read book Guide to Extension Training written by Peter Oakley and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1985 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The framework of development; Understanding extension; Social and cultural factors in extension; Extension and comunication; Extension methods; The extension agent; The planning and evaluation of extension programmes; Extension an special target groups.

Download or read book Evaluation in Extension written by United States. Federal Extension Service. Division of Extension Research and Training and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Analysis of Extension Programs in Department of Agricultural Resource Economics at University of Hawaii written by Richard W. Schermerhorn and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural extension Global status and performance in selected countries written by Davis, Kristin E., ed. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural transformation and development are critical to the livelihoods of more than a billion small-scale farmers and other rural people in developing countries. Extension and advisory services play an important role in such transformation and can assist farmers with advice and information, brokering and facilitating innovations and relationships, and dealing with risks and disasters. Agricultural Extension: Global Status and Performance in Selected Countries provides a global overview of agricultural extension and advisory services, assesses and compares extension systems at the national and regional levels, examines the performance of extension approaches in a selected set of country cases, and shares lessons and policy insights. Drawing on both primary and secondary data, the book contributes to the literature on extension by applying a common and comprehensive framework — the “best-fit” approach — to assessments of extension systems, which allows for comparison across cases and geographies. Insights from the research support reforms — in governance, capacity, management, and advisory methods — to improve outcomes, enhance financial sustainability, and achieve greater scale. Agricultural Extension should be a valuable resource for policymakers, extension practitioners, and others concerned with agricultural development.

Download or read book The Effect of Agricultural Extension Programs on Technical Efficiency of Crop Farms in Low and Middle Income Countries written by Nicolas Lampach and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural extension services have been dominated by development programs to improve the productivity of crops and enhance farmers' income. The virtues and limitations of these programs ignite a debate among scholars from distinct strands of research. It is still unknown how effective extension services are in improving the agricultural productivity. We aim to unpack the relationship between these two constructs, and more specifically explore the main determinants driving systematic variations in the technical efficiency estimates from all relevant crop farming studies. A meta-regression analysis is conducted by using 335 observations from 199 farm level studies to review the effect of agricultural extension activities on farm performance. While the implementation of extension programs is likely to be non-randomly distributed in our sample, we employ the inverse probability of treatment weighting to correct for potential selection bias. Evidence for the absence of a publication bias in farm studies used in the meta-analysis is identified. Consonant with the theory of agricultural extension, we find that extension significantly improves technical efficiency by 4.8% to 7.6%. Farm productivity significantly differs in country level characteristics, type of crops and model specifications. Our empirical findings are robust when replacing missing observations with imputed values obtained from multiple imputation method.

Download or read book Fundamentals of a Sea Grant Extension Program written by National Sea Grant College Program (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Summary of Research in Extension written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Impact Study of Selected Extension Programs that Assist People to Recognize and Pursue Economic Opportunities written by Mississippi State University. Cooperative Extension Service. National Task Force and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: As a part of this study, the paraprofessional positions in the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) was examined. The study investigates how EFNEP work experience impacted upon former paraprofessionals in terms of their ability to generate income, understand career options, apply for and keep a job, and acquire specific job skills.