MISSION

The Program Development and Evaluation Unit provides training and technical assistance that enables Cooperative Extension campus and community-based faculty and staff to plan, implement and evaluate high quality educational programs.

PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

Program development is an ongoing systematic process that UW-Extension professionals follow as they plan, implement and evaluate their educational programs. The process can be applied on a small scale to an individual workshop; on a larger scale to a comprehensive community initiative or to a county or statewide program of action. The scope may be different but the principles of program development remain the same.

In UW-Extension, the program development process is captured in our program development model that includes situational analysis, priority setting, program action - the logic model - and evaluation.