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User Friendly Evaluation

Understand the differences between summative and formative evaluations, key methods, program evaluation essentials, personnel assessment, and congregational evaluations for informed decisions. Analyze demographics, ministry tools, and measure spiritual growth accurately.

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User Friendly Evaluation

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  1. User Friendly Evaluation C. Jeff Woods, Ph.D.

  2. Decisions to Make When Approaching an Evaluation

  3. Summative vs Formative • Summative: Is this working out? • Formative: How can we improve?

  4. What are you evaluating? • Achievement of a-priori goals • All results including both anticipated and unanticipated • Decisions made by key people • Effects on people, community, etc. • Contributions to organizational mission/vision

  5. What type of method? • Qualitative (will surface unknown content) • Observation • Interviews • Focus Groups • Quantitative (will only reveal “how many”) • Measurements • Surveys & instruments • Document analysis

  6. Program Evaluation (Kathleen Cahalan) • Conditions • Goals • Objectives • Results • Impacts

  7. Conditions • Needs • Problems • Questions • Issues • Opportunities

  8. Goals: • What the project will accomplish in relationship to a condition previously defined

  9. Objectives: • What must take place for each goal to be reached?

  10. Results (outputs) • Events • Products • (Side effects) (me)

  11. Impacts (outcomes) • Initial – immediate benefit accruing from participation • Intermediate - changes in knowledge, attitudes, skills, and behaviors that establish new patterns of thinking and behaving • Long term - changes in identity

  12. Personnel Evaluation • Self-generated… • Goals • Analysis • Plans for improvement • …Work best

  13. Congregational Evaluations • Mission/Vision Audits • Evaluation of specific programs • Core values development • Assessment tools…

  14. Congregational Assessment Demographic Tools • Claritas • www.connect.claritas.com (Demographic data & PRIZM lifestyle segmentation reports) • Percept • www.perceptnet.com (Demographic data & religious preferences reports) • Census Bureau • www.census.gov (see TIGER mapping service)

  15. Congregational Assessment Ministry Analysis Tools • Natural Church Development (800-253-4276) • Faith Communities Today (860-509-9543) • Twelve Keys to an Effective Church (Book by Kennon Callahan) • The Complete Ministry Audit & Facing Reality (Easum & Bandy)

  16. Measure new things…

  17. Spiritual Growth: • How many people are in Sunday School? • How many people are in small groups? • How many people are in one to one discipleship relationships? • How many people are in home/neighborhood Bible studies?

  18. Committees and Ministries • How do they differ? • What is the ratio between the two? • What type of people serve on each? • Should any be abandoned?

  19. How many people hours each week are spent in: • Worship • Private devotions • Ministry • Learning • Community ministry • Caring for one another

  20. In the last 10 years, how many • Seminarians? • Lay Pastor enrollees? • New church planters? • Missionaries? • Mission trips? • Laity at continuing education events?

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