Project Design and Evaluation Course

December 8-10, 2003 ~ Punta Gorda, Florida

How can I be sure that my projects will reach the right audience and have the right impact? What can I do to make sure that my efforts go beyond “preaching to the choir”?

If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, the NOAA Coastal Services Center Project Design and Evaluation Course is the course for you! Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program is pleased to offer this course with The Blair Foundation and Florida Sea Grant College Program.

The three-day 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:

Streamline the project development process to show project and program impacts.

Align evaluation to a thorough audience needs assessment, establishment of well-written, measurable objectives and a methodical evaluation methodology.

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.

December 8-10, 2003

Monday and Tuesday from 9 to 5 and Wednesday from 9 to noon

Holiday Inn ~ Punta Gorda, Florida

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Registration Fee: $40 (includes some meals)

Make checks payable to SWFRPC and mail with the registrant information (name, title, affiliation and complete contact information) to:

Maran Hilgendorf, Communications Manager

Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program

4980 Bayline Drive, 4th Floor ~ North Fort Myers FL 33917-3909

239/338-2556 ext 240 ~ mhilgendorf@swfrpc.org

If you wish to reserve a space, please send an email message to Maran (mhilgendorf@swfrpc.org) and provide your name, affiliation as well as your contact information, including mailing address, phone number and email address. Thanks.

Register early. Space is limited with registrations accepted as they are received. If you wish to attend but are unable to pay the registration fee, please contact Maran Hilgendorf. The Holiday Inn has provided discounted sleeping room rates of $62 and $72, depending on the room location, if the reservation is made by December 1. Call 877/639-9399 and ask for the “Design and Evaluation” rate. For more information about the hotel including directions visit their website at hinnharborside.com.