Evaluation Tools
Every lesson plan in
the Practical Parent Education curriculum includes an evaluation instrument
to measure the effectiveness of the class taught. These evaluations have
yielded results in actual case studies of 99% increase in knowledge and 97%
increase in new parenting skills learned.
The evaluation
instruments for Practical Parent Education are designed to help you
determine the effectiveness of your program and to help you determine ways
to make it better. Basing your grant application outcomes on the results
that are measured with these tools can make your grant writing, outcome
documentation, and reporting easy. Evaluation results are valuable tools
for defending your parent education/parent involvement programs to your
funders.
Single
Class Evaluation:
We know that we
cannot expect significant long term change in parenting practices from a
parent’s participation in one class; however, we can measure a parent’s
increase in knowledge about the topic with pre and post content questions
for each module.
The questions for
each module are taken from the lesson content and from the extenders and
activities. A form, Practical Parent Education Outcome Measures;
Pre-Lesson and Post Lesson Scores is provided for you to use in
recording and calculating the results. The data collected can give you the
participant’s average percent of change in knowledge for each class.
Series
Evaluations:
When parents have
participated in a series of classes, usually six to eight lessons, the
Series Evaluation is appropriate. It will record the participant’s
assessment of four things:
1.
1. How useful the content of the lessons
is/will be
2.
2. How many useful skills he/she learned in
the series
3.
3. How the participant’s confidence level
changed during the series
4.
4. The participant’s intent to make positive
changes in his/her parenting practices
The results from
that evaluation tool can be tallied on the Practical Parent Education
Series Evaluation Summary.
Proven Effectiveness: Report Using PPE
Evaluation Tools
The following summary reflects the results from the
evaluation tools included in the PPE curriculum using actual data
collected from parents after they had attended at least four parenting
classes taught by five trained PPE facilitators over a three year period.
Knowledge
17% reported that they had learned one or two things that would be useful to
them as they parented their children
82% reported that they had learned a lot of information that they would use.
Skills
19% reported that they had acquired one or two skills that they would find
useful
78% reported that they had learned several strategies that would be useful
to them
Attitude/Confidence
40% reported that they felt a little more confident as a parent than before
the classes
57% reported that they felt significantly more confident in their parenting
practices
Intended Practice
24% had identified at least one new strategy that they planned to implement
with their children
73% planned to use two or more new positive strategies with their children
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