EvaluatingCCTVandRecordingofChildInterviewsand课件.pptVIP

Evaluating CCTV and Recording of Child Interviews and Testimony M. Christine Kenty, PhD Sharon Elstein, MS ABA Center on Children and the Law KENTYS CLUES FOR EVALUATION #1. Base any evaluation on your own goal pathway and logic model. #2. Organizations are social systems with their own cultures. #3. Whatever people dont want you to study, thats the really important thing. And those touchy things are likely to be: Collaboration Quality of Forensic Interviewing Decision-making about arrest, prosecution and child protection Relating to victims and families Children’s experiences before and in the grand jury or courtroom Kenty’s Clues #4. Its trouble if only one person is doing all the thinking about evaluation. #5. You cant keep partners and stakeholders too well informed about the evaluation process. Kenty’s Clues #6. Any evaluation (or program report) requires DATA, so decide early what you need to record and then keep it up. #7. For any evaluation, there are many good designs, but no perfect ones. #8. Don’t kill the messenger if you dont like the news! Evaluation… is a way to improve a program by systematically examining and analyzing what the program is doing and what it has accomplished. The “I’ll know it when I see it” Rule I’ll know that our program is working when I see………. What evidence can convince us and others that our program is on target? What would tell us that something has happened? How can we count it or track it? What evaluation can do: Help improve the program from the beginning Provide staff and stakeholders with a much-needed sense of accomplishment Guide protocol, policy and law reform Assist in developing future funding Don’t put the evaluation in the hands of just one individual A healthy organization needs to know the program mission, plan the work, develop enthusiasm, and bring things to fruition. An organization also needs to look at what it’s doing, keep whats good and try to jet