Julie and Sharpe Solutions helped to design an evaluation program for our community outreach that truly helped us to understand the impact of the programming in an ongoing fashion – allowing us to make changes that helped the programming to be even more effective. Even more rare, Julie understands the informal learning environment that museums work in and how to measure the impact.
Expertise In:
- Outcome evaluation
- Strategy level evaluation
- Control groups
- Longitudinal studies
Sharpe Solutions uses a participatory evaluation process. We are with you every step of the evaluation process from designing the evaluation to measuring your impact to helping you tell your story. We provide you with evaluation findings customized for a variety of users -- participants, funders, media, stakeholders, partners, and board members.
Evaluation Process Includes:
- Development of logic models to guide evaluation
- Development of evaluation plan to guide data collection, analysis and reporting
- Evaluation questions, measures and schedule of data collection
- Provision of evaluation protocols and staff training/coaching in data collection
- Provision of evaluation notebook to organize data collection
- Survey development including participant satisfaction, social and emotional behavior, food/exercise habits and knowledge, attitudes/skills/knowledge, and professional development
- Administration and analysis of appropriate standardized assessments including Brigance, Picture Peabody, Get Ready to Read, PALS, Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI-II), HOME, Ages and Stages, School Social Behavior Scale, Home and Community Social Behavior Scale, Botvin Life Skills
- Qualitative evaluation including focus groups, observation, and case studies
- Data entry and analysis
- Mid-year progress reports
- Annual evaluation reports
- Executive summary for wide distribution
- Media release of key findings
- Presentation to Board of Directors and/or other Partners
- Conference presentations on findings
