Phase Three: Implementing Your Evaluation

Step 5: Collecting Data

You have settled on what type of data to collect and how to collect it. Now it is time to proceed with actually collecting data for your evaluation.

Step 6: Analyzing Data

It is time to learn about the effects of your environmental education (EE) program! What do the patterns, differences, and relationships in the data suggest about how well the program is achieving its objectives?

Step 7: Reporting Results

Now that you have collected and analyzed data it is time to develop recommendations and share your evaluation's findings. How you report these findings will influence the degree to which recommendations will be considered. It is therefore well worth the time and effort to think about how to best to share your evaluation’s findings.

Example Report (from Birds in my Neighborhood Status Report 2017):