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A review of Pesticide Safety Education evaluation efforts will be conducted and a plan will be developed to revise current evaluation efforts to generate data for both formative (program planning and improvement) and summative (measuring program outcomes).
Non-Technical Summary: <BR>MN PSEP program provides accountability reports to various stakeholders and needs good information on current efforts to enhance planning future efforts. Both of these require collection of accurate data on what works and does not work in program offerings and measurements of short and long term outcomes. This project will develop a plan to revise and update our data collection to meet these needs. <P> Approach: <BR> This project will include three steps: 1) Inventory of current Minnesota Pesticide Safety Education Program (PSEP) evaluation processes, including workshop participant surveys, how we meet regulatory agency needs, program success stories, program narratives, and current accountability statements. 2) Identify PSEP formative and summative evaluation needs (such as learning objectives, behavioral changes, program development processes, organization needs, stakeholder values and desirable public outcomes). 3) Working with evaluation experts develop a plan to update and revise PSEP evaluation procedures to meet the needs identified in step 2. Step 2 may include surveys, focus groups or other data collection methods.