Program Evaluation

MNHS continues to build a culture of evaluation. An evaluation manager leads institutional evaluation capacity building and provides technical assistance and support to staff who evaluate ACHF projects and programs. An evaluation associate in the Education and Lifelong Learning division facilitates evaluation efforts, specifically in K-12 education and public programs. Three interns and numerous volunteers continue to support evaluation work. Seventeen trainings were held to prepare volunteers to do visitor intercept interviews and teach staff qualitative data coding and observation methodology. Ninety-one unique projects or teams engaged in some evaluation project overall. 2016 highlights include: * Facilitated 25 Team-Based Inquiry (TBI) events, with 157 participants, to more systematically engage in data-informed decision making * Created 22 new logic models, with 130 participants. Five existing logic models were reviewed with 14 participants * Created 21 new program surveys and reviewed six more surveys * Conducted 56 public program audience surveys * Completed six observation checklists * Wrote eight evaluation reports and assisted with five grant proposals * Created eight interactive dashboards in Tableau, an online data visualization tool. Dashboards are available for primary audiences, including K-12, family, adult and young adult audiences