Coastal Services Center

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Project Design and Evaluation

Description of Course

This course provides coastal resource management extension and education professionals with the knowledge, skills, and tools to design and implement projects that have measurable impacts on the audience they want to reach. This interactive curriculum can help you increase the effectiveness of your projects by applying valid instructional design theory to their design. After attending the workshop, participants will be able to

• Describe the context of project design and evaluation within the scope of agency and organization missions, strategic plans, and established program niches
• Apply appropriate instructional design theory and practices to project development
• Explain the role of logic models in project design and evaluation and create logic models for their projects
• Use performance measurement as part of project evaluation
• Describe three types and four levels of evaluation that can be applied to extension and education projects

Prerequisites

None.

Course Dates

This course is offered by the NOAA Coastal Services Center and is available by request. Local Sea Grant or other agency hosts are responsible for workshop logistics and assuring participation by a minimum of 15 (maximum of 30) coastal professionals. The Center will provide instructors and materials.

Registration Fee

Contact the Center for details.

Contact Information

For more information or to request training, contact the Center's Coastal Learning Services program at nos.csc.CLS_trainers@noaa.gov.

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