The most important use of your evaluation results is to use the results to redesign your program so that it will be more effective. Ask:
- What did you learn?
- What worked?
- What did not work?
- What can you learn from the drop-outs? Can you call them and ask about why they were unable to complete the session?
- What changes can be made to the teaching? What did you learn from the audiences?
- What additional services should/could be added (transportation, child care, etc?) (cf. Goddard, Smith, Mize, White & White, 1994).
After you have proceeded through this decision tree, you will loop back to the section called A Foundation for Evaluation: Program Planning. There is a progression and a pattern to conducting educational programs.