Assessment & Evaluation of Community Services


Timeline
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September 27, 2020Experience start
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September 29, 2020Project Scope Meeting
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October 20, 2020Survey
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December 19, 2020Experience end
Timeline
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September 27, 2020Experience start
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September 29, 2020Project Scope Meeting
Meeting between students and company to confirm: project scope, communication styles, and important dates.
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October 20, 2020Survey
Survey should be complete and ready to send out by this date
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December 19, 2020Experience end
Experience scope
Categories
Humanities Education Social sciences Hospitality, tourism & culinary artsSkills
data analysis research survey designDo you have a question or challenge within a program/service you are running that you need to research?
Students will work in groups of 3-5, and will spend approximately 50-75 hours each working with your organization to develop, implement, and analyze an evaluation of a particular program, service, or product of your organization. This will be done through primary research (not secondary research).
To conduct this evaluation, students will work directly with you to complete the following:
1) Design and create a valid measurement tool (e.g. survey)
2) Students will utilize the measurement tool they've created to collect data (via online survey and/or qualitative interviews)
3) Analyze quantitative and qualitative data (e.g. testing for significant differences between groups, or reporting relationships between multiple variables, identifying themes in interviews)
4) Create a professional report of findings including recommended action steps
Learners
A professional report including analysis and recommendations.
A recorded 5-minutes presentation of the results.
Project timeline
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September 27, 2020Experience start
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September 29, 2020Project Scope Meeting
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October 20, 2020Survey
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December 19, 2020Experience end
Timeline
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September 27, 2020Experience start
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September 29, 2020Project Scope Meeting
Meeting between students and company to confirm: project scope, communication styles, and important dates.
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October 20, 2020Survey
Survey should be complete and ready to send out by this date
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December 19, 2020Experience end
Project Examples
Requirements
Students will come from a variety of backgrounds including the following undergraduate degree programs Parks & Recreation Management, Sports Management, Non-Profit Leadership, and Tourism Management. They will all be in their final year of their program.
Examples of past projects have included the following:
o Assessment of a disabled sports program, and its impact on sense of community of participants
o Evaluation of a mobile arts program and youth development outcomes (ie studying how long youth were in the program, interactions with staff and the effect these on youth development)
o Evaluation of a community gardening program
o The relation of staff behavior to positive youth development in a Boys and Girls Club Program (ie how youth participants perceive positive/negative comments from staff and the effect this had on their experience)
o The relation of employee satisfaction to TripAdvisor reviews for Phoenix area hotels
This is just a sample of past projects and we are open to hearing new ideas!
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Timeline
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September 27, 2020Experience start
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September 29, 2020Project Scope Meeting
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October 20, 2020Survey
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December 19, 2020Experience end
Timeline
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September 27, 2020Experience start
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September 29, 2020Project Scope Meeting
Meeting between students and company to confirm: project scope, communication styles, and important dates.
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October 20, 2020Survey
Survey should be complete and ready to send out by this date
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December 19, 2020Experience end