1. 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

2. Importance of Communication

3. Importance of Communication

4. 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.

5. 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

6. Demonstration

7. 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

8. Demonstration

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

10. Option A

11. Option B: Demonstration

12. 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

13. Demonstration

16. Questions
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17. Contact Information
Tiffany Comer Cook Associate Research Scientist Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center (307)