Sara,

In response to your areas of interest:
Evaluating the impact of short-term intense workshops on teen mothers 
over a 6 weeks period of time.

If you think about evaluation in terms of GPRA performance outcomes and 
a logic model, you'd want to capture changes in the teen mom's 
knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors about a set of given 
constructs. LIFT developed a simple tool to monitor changes in literacy 
behaviors modeled by parents when interacting with their young 
children. The Parent Observation Guide (POG) looks for behaviors 
associated with the five essential skill domains of early literacy. You 
can look at this by visiting http://lift-missouri.org. Go to Kentucky 
Even Start, and then click Forms. The Infant Toddler and 3 - 5 year old 
versions are there. This has worked very well in two states as a means 
of capturing changes in parents' literacy behaviors over time.

Jeri Levesque, Ed.D.
Evaluator, Missouri and Kentucky Even Start Programs
LIFT-MO

-----Original Message-----
From: gprice at famlit.org
To: familyliteracy at nifl.gov
Sent: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 7:14 AM
Subject: [FamilyLiteracy 537]  Evaluating Outcomes

          The following two requests were submitted by Sara Mansbach in 
my pre-Christmas solicitation of ideas and suggestions for discussions 
on the Family Literacy Discussion List. Since they both had to do with 
evaluation, I am posting them together. However, in your response 
please indicate which item you are responding to as your suggestions 
may not be the same for both.

  

  Evaluation of outcomes is an important part of any literacy program 
and certainly one that we need to continue building and strengthening 
in adult education. I am sure not only Sara, but the entire List would 
be glad to here your thoughts on these two requests.

  

  Again, on behalf of Sara Mansbach, I submit the following for your 
consideration.

  

 I would be interested in learning more about:

   * Evaluating the outcomes of less intense family literacy programs 
where parents may be seen from one month to the next for only ½  an 
hour at a time, again with newborns to 4 year old children who are not 
very verbal and where formal evaluation measures can not be employed.
   

   * Evaluating the impact of short term intense workshops on teen 
mothers over a 6 weeks period of time
   

  

 Sara C. Mansbach, D.Ed.

 Program Director

 Lapsits for Early Literacy

 864-414-0875

 info at lapsits.org

  

  

  

 Gail J. Price

 Multimedia Specialist

 National Center for Family Literacy

 325 W. Main Street, Suite 300

 Louisville, KY 40202

 gprice at famlit.org

 502 584-1133, ext. 112

  



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