We do a simple survey 30-60 days after participation in our class (we connect the bike with education)
- do you still use your bike?
-if yes, what do you use it for?
-if no, why not?
- do you wear a helmet?
That is enough info to get a rough estimate of continued behavior. We use personal interviews and stories from those who come to our shop for more detailed descriptions of the impact of our program. We also struggle with finding the people who did the class 30 days later. We will probably add a question about using our open shop repair opportunities.
Scott TenBrink
Executive Director
Fitness Council of Jackson
225 North Jackson St.
Jackson, MI 49201
(517) 990-9798
scott@fitnesscouncil.org
www.fitnesscouncil.org
From: thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.org [mailto:thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.org] On Behalf Of Carolyn Braunius Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 4:42 PM To: The Think Tank Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Program Evaluation
Hi
In another life, I worked a lot with these folks: http://www.worldbridgeevaluation.com/
They make social change evaluation their top priority and have a lot of good advice about non-hierarchical consensus based work.
~c
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From: Laurie Hanselmann laurie@thebikedepot.org To: The Think Tank thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Sent: Fri, December 10, 2010 2:24:07 PM Subject: [TheThinkTank] Program Evaluation
Hi all,
The Bike Depot is trying to come up with an evaluation tool for our Earn A Bike (and eventually Fix Your Bike, classes, and volunteers) program and I was just wondering if anyone else out there has a format and system that works. I looked around on the Wiki but couldn't find much. We are working on a simple pre and post program survey to start with, but with our EAB population are wondering how best to reach them after they have left our program and their probability of them actually following up with us.
Also, for any group that is successfully using surveys, what questions are you using? We are looking mostly at health impact and quality of life improvement (able to get a job because of bike, etc.). Are there other evaluation systems you are using that work well? What do you then do with that information? Has it spurred you to change aspects of your program to have a greater effect?
As we develop our evaluation system I will be sure to share and post what we have created on the wiki site.