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Farrell, Maura; McDonagh, John – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2012
Purpose: The article explores the significance of "evaluation" in the delivery of multifunctional extension advisory programmes and argues the necessity of integrating evaluation into programme planning, to ensure that programme guidelines are adhered to and extension advisory programmes generate their desired impact. The article focuses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fidelity, Evaluation Research, Agricultural Occupations
Hoiberg, Eric; Swope, Cliff – 1979
Interviews with 940 Iowa farm operators and their wives were conducted during 1977 to address the question of perceived extension effectiveness (the degree to which the respondent perceived the Cooperative Extension Service as meeting his/her needs). Two models of organizational effectiveness were advanced and suggested as being consistent with…
Descriptors: Demography, Extension Education, Farmers, Needs Assessment

Higgins, Kathleen Mansfield – Convergence: An International Journal of Adult Education, 1982
This paper is the summary of a substantial report presented to the Botswana Ministry of Agriculture. The report evaluates a program of nonformal education provided for women farmers at rural training centers. The analysis reveals that the content of women's courses tends to be wholly domestic. (SSH)
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Curriculum Development, Farmers, Females
Forest, Laverne B.; Marshall, Mary G. – 1978
Evaluation procedures for the systematic measurement of Extension's total impact or effectiveness in rural Shawano County, Wisconsin, involved developing comprehensive descriptions of Extension programs from 1960 to 1975 to list types of activities and offerings, topics, attendances, and overviews of efforts in program areas like agriculture, home…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Surveys, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Forest, Laverne B.; Marshall, Mary G. – 1977
Two-thirds of the 33,000 residents of Shawano County, Wisconsin, live in rural areas; agricultural interests comprise 30% of the employment economy. Inventories of Extension programs from 1960 to 1975 and telephone interviews with county and community leaders and a random sample of 1192 county residents yielded data for this survey. Most adults…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Attitudes, Community Surveys, Evaluation Criteria
Nitsch, Ulrich – 1980
The traditional method of conducting evaluation studies of agricultural extension programs is not sufficient when evaluating the impact on rural development, and must, therefore, be complemented by qualitative studies and careful evaluations of program objectives based on farmer needs. Traditional experimental evaluation studies do not register…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Aspiration, Attitudes, Educational Quality
Southern Small Farm Management Workshop (Nashville, Tennessee, October 25-27, 1978). Bulletin Y-146.
Tennessee Valley Authority, Muscle Shoals, AL. – 1979
The purpose of the workshop was to evaluate efforts by the Cooperative Extension Service to provide educational services to the small farmer (one who markets less than $20,000 worth of products a year), to exchange ideas on small farm management, and to recommend program directions for the future. Experts in various farm management areas…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Animals, Aspiration, Decision Making

Beaulieu, Joyce; Webb, John – Journal of Rural Health, 2002
Complex community health promotion programs are being held accountable for their effectiveness, but rural public health departments lack staff and expertise to carry out evaluations. In Kentucky, a university evaluation expert trains local public health staff in technical skills for program evaluation and provides ongoing mentoring and technical…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Role, Community Programs, Health Programs
Perraton, Hilary; And Others – 1983
The five papers in this volume examine the methods, costs, and effects of traditional agricultural extension services and basic education and about the use of mass media for extension and education. The first paper, a literature review regarding the effectiveness of agricultural extension, reports that extension agents' studies of internal…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Farmer Education, Agricultural Education, Case Studies
Heffernan, William D.; Heffernan, Judith Bortner – 1987
This is an early assessment of the Rural Community Service Coordinator Program (RCSCP), organized by the University of Missouri Extension Service using funds from the federal Food Security Act of 1985. Five full-time coordinators were named by area mental health officials to help rural people cope with despair and emotional disturbances caused by…
Descriptors: Community Problems, Community Resources, Community Support, Coping
Gober, Lydia A., Comp.; Wiseman, T. Jan, Comp. – 1979
Communities Alive For Living and Learning (Project CALL), designed at Kishwaukee College to help three local, rural communities develop educational, recreational, and cultural programs, is described in this report. The first sections of the report consider the need for and purposes of the project. The Project Coordinator's report presents an…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Development, Community Education, Community Involvement
Western Washington Univ., Bellingham. National Rural Development Inst. – 1986
Texts of speeches delivered before general sessions and abstracts of papers presented in concurrent sessions are collected in this document which also contains the conference program, a directory of presenters, and the 13 conference cosponsors' recommendations for enhancing the quality of rural and small school education. The six addresses to the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems, Educational Innovation, Educational Research
Killacky, Jim – 1984
The monograph, written for persons and organizations at state and local levels who share concern about learning activities for adults in rural America, explores characteristics of three traditional providers of nonformal education (the Cooperative Extension Service, public libraries, and community service divisions of community colleges), assesses…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Community Services, Comparative Analysis