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University of Florida/IFAS Extension Plan of Work Checklist1
Lisa Guion and Nick Place2This publication is best viewed in PDF format. This paper is available at: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/FY/FY15800.pdf.
A. Rationale
1. Current situation: (What is)____ Did you describe local behavior-related issues that Extension can address?
____ Did you use and cite local data?
____ Did you identify a specific audience?
2. Preferred situation: (What should be)
____ Did you describe the level of changes in behavior that are needed to produce the preferred situation? (This establishes the educational GAP.)
3. Significance: (So what?)
____ Did you describe the SEEC (Social, Economic, Environmental Condition) changes that will result from your educational programs?
B. Educational Objectives
1. Major objectives: (long-term educational objectives - 4 years)____ Do you major objectives focus on reducing the GAP addressed in your situation statement?
____ Are your objectives educationally based?
____ Are your objectives focused on SEEC, or at least behavior change?
2. Annual objectives: (short-term educational objectives - 1 year)
____ Did you remember your ABCDs (Audience, Behavior, Condition, Degree)?
____ Do your annual objectives lead to fulfilling your major objectives?
____ Did you focus on clientele behavior changes and not what you intend to do as the agent?
C. Target Audience
____ Did you identify a specific audience?____ Is the audience the same as what you referred to in the rationale and objectives sections?
____ Does your Plan of Work (POW) include steps for including diverse audiences?
____ Have you utilized innovative and nontraditional methods to outreach to your target audience?
____ Have you invited select members of your target audience to collaborate with you in program planning and/or implementation?
D. Activities/ Methods
____ Are your activities educationally based?____ Are your activities clientele focused?
____ Will your activities help you achieve your objectives?
____ Are your activities appropriate for your audience (learning styles, interests, reading level, etc.)?
____ Are you planning to provide an appropriate learning environment (safe, available, accessible, appropriate time, etc.)?
E. Evaluation Plan
____ Is your Plan for Evaluation/accountability consistent with the Objectives and Activities?____ Do your Annual Objectives include at least one indicator?
____ Have you addressed various categories of Bennetts Hierarchy and different types of evaluations?
____ Do you have records of participations (i.e., registrations, enrollment, sign-in sheets, number of participants/sample of census)?
____ Have you determined how you will measure KASA (Knowledge, Attitude, Skill, and Aspirations) change (i.e., post only, post then pre-, pre- and post test, skills test, etc.)?
____ Have you determined how you will measure practice change (i.e., pre- and post, direct observation)?
____ Have you determined how you will measure SEEC change (i.e., secondary data, pre- and post surveys or observation)?
Footnotes
1. This document is FCS6011, one of a series of the Family Youth and Community Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date March 19, 2001. Revised November 28, 2005. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.2. Lisa A. Guion, Ed.D., associate professor, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences and Nick Place, Ph.D., Department of Agricultural Education and Communication, Cooperative Extension Service, IFAS, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 32611.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A. & M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Larry Arrington, Dean.
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