Trainings

Katherine Webb-Martinez 

Vikram Koundinya

Guest Speakers: Hedmon Okello 4-H Animal Science Youth Advisor, Domena Agyeman Agriculture and Natural Resources Economics Advisor, and Priyanka Vyas from IGIS

• Understanding of needs assessments basics (why, what, how, when)
• Understanding of how to write good needs assessment questions
• Understanding of how to use the findings to inform how you focus and develop your program
• Feedback on your needs assessment approach or on your draft instrument/questions 

Vikram Koundinya

Katherine Webb-Martinez

Guest Speakers:  Colby Silvert (Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, University of Maryland), Parmveer Singh (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Saskatchewan), and Julia Van Soelen-Kim (UCCE Advisor) & Yulia Lamoureaux (PhD Candidate, Geography Graduate Group, UC Davis)

• Understand how Delphi method can be used in needs assessment
• Understand how Delphi method can be adapted for different situations
• Learn how Delphi method was used in three research and evaluation studies

Priyanka Vyas

Shane Feirer

• Skills to apply spatial thinking in conducting their needs assessment
• Understanding of tools to obtain secondary data for a geographic area of interest
• Ability to create a custom map of a geographic area with relevant layers of interest

Katherine Webb-Martinez 

Vikram Koundinya 

Guest Speakers: Justin Valliere UCCE Specialist Invasive Weed & Restoration Ecology

• Understanding of how to define program theory and connect to UC ANR’s condition changes and public values
• Experience defining outcomes and measurable indicators and using a program logic model
• Understanding of options for evaluation data collection methods to measure program participant outcomes
• A draft evaluation plan

Vikram Koundinya

Samuel Ikendi

Greta Landis (Evaluation Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension), Guest Speaker

• Understanding of the importance of developing a strong evaluation plan in a grant proposals
• Understanding of best practices for writing evaluation plans in grant proposals
• Understanding of real life examples for the shared best practices
• Understanding of how a strong evaluation plan is written and implemented

Jennifer Sedell

Katherine Webb-Martinez

Kit Alviz 

With UCCE Advisor guest speakers

• Understanding what the IRB is
• Understanding of how to locate and navigate IRB decision-making tools
• Understanding of common forms and processes
• Understanding the basic steps of navigating required trainings
• Awareness of common experiences UC ANR academics across different program areas and position types
• Practical tips from UC ANR peers on navigating IRB submissions and reviews

Kit Alviz 

David White

Priyanka Vyas

Jocelyn Mobley

With recorded examples from UCCE professionals

• Understanding of how-to define clientele groups and strategies for collecting baseline data
• Understanding of civil rights compliance goal examples
• Hands on experience using Project Board or Statewide Program data to track annual progress against goals.

Kit Alviz 

David White

Guest speaker: Elizabeth Moon 

• Understanding of programmatic strategies to conduct All Reasonable Effort
• Understanding of how to demonstrate compliance via All Reasonable Effort documentation
• Understanding of programmatic strategies UCCE employs to increase opportunities for program participation
• Understanding how to tally and report audience attendance and demographics into an online reporting system
• Understanding of policy changes related to contact reporting (e.g., collecting race/ethnicity/gender using self-identification forms only, gender category changes) 

Jen Sedell

Christina Becker

Vikram Koundinya

Samuel Ikendi

• Understanding when and why to conduct focus groups as part of needs assessments and evaluations
• Understanding of the best practices for designing focus groups for needs assessments and evaluations
• Hands-on experience developing a focus group protocol
• Practical tips on conducting focus groups

Vikram Koundinya

Samuel Ikendi

Kit Alviz

Jocelyn Mobley

Guest Speakers: To be confirmed

• Understanding of the best practices for designing online and paper surveys
• Hands on experience developing good survey questions
• Understanding of some online survey bot mitigation and detection methods
• Understanding of different outcome measurement survey designs
• Understanding of different survey sampling methods and when to use them

Vikram Koundinya

Kit Alviz

Guest Speakers: Yu Meng (UCCE Advisor), Greta Landis (Evaluation Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension), Devii Rao (UCCE Advisor)

• Understanding of how to use REM in assessing the impact of extension programs
• Hands-on experience of REM method using an example case

Priyanka Vyas

Robert Johnson

• Skills to apply spatial techniques to evaluate program outcomes
• Understanding of factors driving geographic variation in program outcomes
• Ability to identify different sources of spatial and contextual data to evaluate program outcomes

Samuel Ikendi

Kit Alviz

• Understanding of measures of central tendency and variability
• Hands-on experience analyzing and reporting frequency distribution in pre/post tests using Excel
• Understanding of different types of mean difference tests
• Hands-on experience running a paired or dependent samples t-test in Excel, interpreting the results, and reporting the findings
• Understanding of levels of quantitative data (e.g., nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)

Jennifer Sedell

Christina Becker

• Understanding of types of qualitative analysis that can be done on open-ended survey data for program evaluation
• Hands-on experience of coding qualitative data and extracting themes using Excel, and reporting the findings
• Practice identifying a mixed methods design to evaluate a program

Katherine Webb-Martinez

Christina Becker

Representative from Academic Assembly Council Personnel Committee

• Experience organizing your program activities into themes using condition changes
• Experience connecting your project/program outcomes to condition changes and public values
• Understanding of how to write strong impact statements