Cooperative Extension National Program Evaluation
1977-79
Special Projects
(UA 14/8/1)
Size: 4 boxes
Background:
The Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 required that the Secretary of Agriculture provide the Congress with "...an evaluation of the economic and social consequences of the programs of the Extension Service and the Cooperative Extension Services..." The evalutaion was undertaken as a joint effort of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the State Cooperative Extension Services, the latter throught the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (ECOP) of the National Association of State Universitiies and Land-Grant Colleges.
ECOP appointed an evaluation task force in August 1977 to explore means of assisting and participating with the Department. In January 1978, a policy group was convened to provide guidance for conducting the evaluation of Extension programs. The policy group named a design team to develop a project plan and to develop procedures for implementing the plan.
Program evaluation methods were designed by project core staff members who were responsible for individual program areas. Each of the program areas identified in the madate--comprising the broad scope of Extension education--was pursued as a quasi-independent study. This approach resulted in the development of several evaluation techniques which gave a variety of program results, making consolidaiton into an integrated report difficult. The final report, published January 1980 is titled Evaluation of Economic and Social Consequences of Cooperative Extension Programs.
Scope and Content:
This series contains the committee files and rough drafts written for the National Program Evaluation collected by Maynard Heckle, Director of the New Hampshire Cooperative Extension Services. Heckle served as chairman of the steering committe for this project.
Inventory:
| F. 1 | 1977 | National Task Force on Program Evaluation |
| F. 2 | 1978 | National Task Force on Program Evaluation |
| F. 3 | 1979 | National Task Force on Program Evaluation |
| F. 4 | 1979 | Policy Group Meetings |
| F. 5 | 1978-79 | Design Team correspondence |
| F. 6 | Jan. 8, 1979 | Draft: Social and Economic Consequences of the Cooperative Extension Service. Part One. Jack Belck |
| F. 7 | March 10, 1979 | Status Report: Evaluation Project. William Wood |
| F. 8 | April 25, 1979 | Working Draft: Food and Nutrition Programs, Nancy Harries-Belck |
| F. 9 | May 31, 1979 | Working Draft: Purpose, Background and Programs of Home Economics Extension |
| F. 1 | June 1979 | Preliminary Draft: Report of An Evaluation of the Economic and Social Consequences of the 4-H Program, Pigg/Meyers/Boyce/Abbott |
| F. 2 | July-Nov, 1979 | Comments on draft reports |
| F. 3 | July 12, 1979 | Evaluation: Sections on Description of CES System, Fedkiw |
| F. 4 | July 16, 1979 | County Visits, Susan DeMarco |
| F. 5 | July 25, 1979 | Draft: 1890 Cooperative Extension Evaluation Report, George Thomas |
| F. 6 | Aug. 1, 1979 | Preliminary Draft: Agricultural Program, Maish/Davison/Erickson |
| F. 7 | Aug. 3, 1979 | Agriculture Program working papers |
| F. 8 | Aug. 15, 1979 | Revised Draft: Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program. |
| F. 9 | Aug. 29, 1979 | Draft: Introduction and Background. William Wood |
| F. 10 | Aug. 30, 1979 | Background Documentations |
| F. 1 | Aug. 30, 1979 | Semi-Final Draft: Evaluation of the Economic and Social Consequences of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension Program |
| F. 2 | Sept. 1979 | Overview of Contractual Work to Review, Appraise and Summarize Studies of Extension Program Effectiveness,1961-1978. Claude Bennett |
| F. 3 | Sept. 1979 | Draft reports: 4-H Evaluation |
| F. 4 | Sept. 13, 1979 | Draft: Limitations and Suggestions for Extension Program Evaluation. William Wood |
| F. 5 | Sept. 17, 1979 | Draft: 1890 Institution's Report. Mary Johnson |
| F. 6 | Sept. 1979 | Preliminary Draft: A Report of the Evaluation of the Economic and Social Consequences of the 4-H Program. Pigg and Meyers |
| F. 7 | Oct. 22, 1979 | Extension Evaluation Project Observations, William Wood |
| F. 8 | Nov. 15, 1979 | Draft 2: Congressional Report, I. Introduction, Wood and Carpenter |
| F. 9 | Nov. 15, 1979 | Draft 2: Congressional Report, II. Cooperative Extension Service, Carpenter |
| F. 10 | Nov. 15, 1979 | Draft 2: Congressional Report, IV. Home Economics and Nutrition, Rodgers/Fedkiw/Carpenter |
| F. 11 | Nov. 15, 1979 | Draft 2: Congressional Report, V. 4-H Youth, Pigg/Carpenter |
| F. 12 | Nov. 15, 1979 | Draft 2: Congressional Report, VI. Community and Rural Development. Tankersley/Wheaton/Carpenter |
| F. 13 | Nov. 15, 1979 | Draft 2: Congressional Report, VII. Summary of Economic and Social Consequences of Ext. Program, Fedkiw/Schaller/Carpenter |
| F. 14 | Dec. 28, 1979 | Draft 3: Congressional Report, VII. Summary of Economic and Social Consequences of Ext. Program, Fedkiw/Schaller/Carpenter |
| F. 1 | Nov. 15, 1979 | Draft 2: Congressional Report, VIII. Summary, Interpretations, and Issues, Fedkiw/Schaller/Carpenter |
| F. 2 | Dec. 7, 1979 | Draft of Executive Summary, Schaller |
| F. 3 | Dec. 20, 1979 | IX. Suggestions for Coninuing Program Evaluation, Bennett |
| F. 4 | Jan. 2, 1980 | IX. Suggestions for Coninuing Program Evaluation (Revised) |
| F. 5 | Sept. 17, 1979 | Evaluation Issues; Home Economics Team, N. Belek |
| F. 6 | Additional Concerns and Issues | |
| F. 7 | Dec. 28, 1979 | Draft 2: Citizen's Review Panel Report |