NDSU Extension Service Concept Quiz
Orientation
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Session 1 - Welcome to the NDSU Extension Service

Session 2 - Who We Are and What We Do

Session 3 - Policies and Procedures

Session 4 - Technology

Session 5 - Communications

Session 6 - The Land-Grant University

Session 7 - Program Development and Educational Design

Session 8 - 4-H Youth Development

Session 9 - Personalizing Your Programs

Session 10 - Evaluation

Session 11 - Professional Development

Session 12 - Working with Differences

Session 13 - Balancing Work and Personal Life

Session 14 - Organizational Management

Session 15 - Volunteer Management

Session 16 - Wrap-up

 

Contacts

If there’s anything that can be done to make your first year with the NDSU Extension Service better, please contact your supervisor (district director, assistant director or department chair) or Becky Koch and Deb Gebeke, Staff Development Specialists. bkoch@ndsuext.nodak.edu
dgebeke@ndsuext.nodak.edu

Click on one of the four words to identify if each statement describes an input, activity, output or outcome.

Source: Measuring Program Outcome Training Kit. United Way of America, 1996

Parenting Education Program

1. Parents from 10 families attend the workshops.

    Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

2. Six group workshops are conducted.

    Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

3. Parents' understanding of children's developmental issues increases.

     Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

4. Parents provide more age-appropriate guidance to children.

    Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

5. Parents participate in role plays and group discussions.

     Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

After-school Program

1. Children master new individual and group activities.

    Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

2. 15  at-risk children attend after-school sessions at the church.

     Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

3. Activities are designed to encourage cooperative play.

     Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

4. Children's social skills improve.

    Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

5. Children make more positive use of free time outside the program.

     Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

Tutoring Program

1. 20 school-agers in grades 4 to 8 are matched with high school tutors.

     Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

2. Youngsters' academic performance increases.

    Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

3. Youngsters indicate increased belief in their abilities to learn new subjects.

      Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

4. Youngsters receive one-to-one help in reading and math.

     Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

5. Tutors emphasize the importance of education.

    Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

Conflict Management Program

1. Youths are involved in fewer physical conflicts.

    Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

2. Discussion sessions explore experiences with stereotyping and cultural differences.

     Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

3. Youths display greater tolerance of differing points of view.

     Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

4. Youths practice communication and negotiation skills.

    Input    Activity    Output     Outcome

5. Youths report more willingness to have friends with backgrounds different from theirs.

     Input    Activity    Output     Outcome