Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center Evaluation 2010: Evaluation Quality Effectively Communicating Evaluation Results: Creative, Innovative, and Technological Ways to Share Evaluation Findings Tiffany Comer Cook, M.S. Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center Evaluation 2010: Evaluation Quality San Antonio, TX November 13, 2010

Importance of Communication http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=500

Importance of Communication http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2006-12-17/

Utilization-Focused Evaluation “Evaluators should facilitate the evaluation process and design any evaluation with careful consideration of how everything, from beginning to end, will affect use. The focus in utilization-focused evaluation is on intended use by intended users.” Utilization-Focused Evaluation Patton, M. Q. (1997). Utilization-focused evaluation (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Interactive Website #1 Data about Wyoming’s Tobacco Prevention and Control Program Allows users to… Graph data View maps and charts Build and store personalized graphs and fact sheets Download reports, issue briefs, and fact sheets

Demonstration www.uwyo.edu/Tobacco

Interactive Graphing Capabilities More than 300 questions 16 data sources Cross-tabulated with demographics Gender Age Income County Save and store graphs Export data to Excel

Demonstration http://wysac.uwyo.edu/pnaig/

Glossy Report Are there identifiable types of smokers? Latent Class Analysis A clustering method that assigns cases to groups

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Option B: Demonstration http://wysac.uwyo.edu/r/25_u09220908WQTP%20Cumulative%20Report%202006-2009.pdf

Case Management Systems WyCST (Wyoming Court Supervised Treatment) Monitors CST program participants AWARE (Alcohol Wellness Alternatives, Research, & Education) Monitors UW student violations for alcohol, disorderly conduct, and marijuana

Demonstration

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Contact Information Tiffany Comer Cook Associate Research Scientist Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center (307) 760-1911 tcomer@uwyo.edu