Participatory Evaluation of Environmental Education: Stakeholder Assessment of the Wildlife Clubs of Kenya

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 20:52 -- daverb
Summary: 

The Wildlife Clubs of Kenya (WCK) is an environmental organization which educates Kenyan youth about wildlife and conservation. With the assistance of an outside evaluation advisor, the WCK conducted a participatory evaluation, in which teachers and WCK staff worked together to identify and investigate key evaluation questions. Evaluation questions included:

  1. What are the most and least effective WCK programs?
  2. What constraints are faced by WCK?
  3. What benefits does WCK provide to students?
  4. What recommendations are there for improving WCK?

Using a participatory evaluation approach, the WCK adopted a qualitative approach to investigate their evaluation questions. Data collection methods included interviews and questionnaires. The results were used to help WCK improve communication between WCK offices and local clubs.

Search Type: 
Program Search Terms
Evaluation Search Terms
Settings: 
Nonformal
Program Type: 
Club/Interest Group
Topic: 
Animals/Plants/Wildlife
Biodiversity
Career Choices
Ecology/Ecosystems
Sustainability
Audience: 
Primary School
Secondary School
College/Continuing Education
Youth/Community Groups
Evaluation Type: 
Process/Implementation
Outcome
Evaluator: 
Internal
External
Outputs: 
Activity Implementation
Outcomes: 
Knowledge
Attitudes/Values
Skills
Behaviors
Approach: 
Qualitative
Data Collection: 
Existing Data! Documents
Focus Groups
Interviews
Logs/Journals/Student Work
Questionnaires/Surveys
Design: 
Post-test
Analysis - Qualitative Data: 
Key Incident Analysis
Content Analysis w/ Descriptive Statistics
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Author: 
McDuff, M. D., & Jacobson, S. K.
Year: 
2001
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Source: 
International Journal of Geographical and Environmental Education, 10(2): 127-148
Instruments: 
A partial set of evaluation instruments is available in the report