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Resources from the FPG Smart Start Evaluation Team:
Evaluation Assistance
|| Smart Start Evaluation Notebook || Handouts and Presentation Overheads

-- Evaluation Assistance

The Frank Porter Graham UNC-CH Smart Start Statewide Evaluation staff is available to provide evaluation technical assistance to North Carolina Smart Start partnerships. The following topics are areas in which the FPG Evaluation Assistance staff is prepared to help:

  • Providing an overview of basic evaluation principles, definitions and steps
  • Leading discussions of how/whether activities are tied to goals and objectives
  • Developing or identifying partnership benchmarks
  • Developing or identifying activity measurable outcomes
  • Designing evaluations of local activities
  • Providing procedures or measures for local evaluations
  • Facilitating efficient and accurate quarterly reporting
  • Using existing data, including statewide and local Smart Start evaluation data

The FPG Evaluation Assistance Team will respond to requests in the most efficient and user-friendly way possible, but these are some of the ways in which the team will operate:

One-on-one consultation

Regional workshops

E-mail or phone contacts

Individual county workshops

Mailings

Web Site

To request evaluation technical assistance, please email us at smartstart@unc.edu.

-- The NotebookSmart Start Evaluation Notebook

What is the Smart Start Evaluation Notebook?

A core group of Smart Start Evaluators and members of the Frank Porter Graham Smart Start Team worked together to build a collection of ideas and materials that have been developed about Smart Start Evaluation. The Notebook is designed to orient new staff, serve as a resource for all staff, and serve as a central collection point for Smart Start evaluation. You may browse the first few pages of the notebook, including the Table of Contents, to learn more.

How do I get a Smart Start Evaluation Notebook?

Contact us at the FPG Smart Start Evaluation Team to order an Evaluation Notebook. There is a $25 service charge for each copy. You may view and print an order form by clicking here. Complete the order form and send it to us with payment.

Are there any Notebook updates?

There are no updates at this time.

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-- Handouts and Presentation Overheads

Topic
Presented
Link

North Carolina School Readiness Assessment
(presented by Kelly Maxwell)

Thursday May 3rd, 2001 Evaluation Meeting

(Olin T. Binkley Church, Chapel Hill)

Go to this web site, then click on "Reports".

http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~schoolreadiness/

Survey on Future Evaluation Meeting Topics   Get the survey here, complete it and send it to us by Friday, May 18th 2001
Regional Evaluator Collaboration Contacts  

Click here for the NCPC Region Map (on Smart.Net)

Click here for the list of people who offered to be contacts for their region (MS Word file, 20 KB)

Partnership Annual Reports

 

View a few sample pages from these partnership's annual reports:

Thank you to those partnerships who shared their reports!


Defining Measurable Outcomes, George Cole

Monday February 12th, 2001 Evaluation Meeting

(The Friday Center, Chapel Hill)


click picture to view presentation on-line

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Smart Start Evaluation Team

Frank Porter Graham
Child Development Institute

105 Smith Level Rd.
UNC-CH CB# 8180
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8180

Phone: 919.966.2559
Fax: 919.966.7532
Email:
smartstart@unc.edu