John H. Schuh

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Presenting Your Results

• John H. Schuh
• Iowa State University

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Stakeholders in Assessment

• Policymakers and decision makers
• Program sponsors
• Evaluation sponsors
• Target Participants
• Program Managers

• Program staff
• Program competitors
• Contextual stakeholders
• FR Rossi, Freeman Lipsey. (1999).
  Evaluation A systematic approach. Thousand
  Oaks, CA Sage

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Rules for Using Assessment Results

• Rule 1 Determine the confidentiality of the
  study
• Rule 2 Determine who should be involved
• Rule 3 Conduct a good study
• Rule 4 Write a good report
• Rule 5 Development and implement a
  dissemination plan
• Rule 6 Develop a plan for using the report
• Rule 7 Acknowledge limitations

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Steps in Writing a Good Report

• 1. Determine the audience
• 2. Determine appropriate format(s)
• Executive summary
• Short report
• Targeted supplemental reports
• Full report

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Steps in Writing a Good Report

• 3. Include important components gtMeaningful
  title gtExecutive summary gtStatement of
  purpose gtDesign gtResults gtRecommendations
• gtLimitations4. Keep the report interesting and
  readable5. Anticipate possible controversial
  reactions

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Helpful Hints

• Keep the report short
• Use graphics
• Use charts and figures
• Be sure to include
• recommendations
• for practice

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Checking Your Penultimate Draft

• Have you put the title, your name, the date and
  other information on the title page?
• Are all the pages there?
• Are they numbered consecutively?
• Are the sections numbered consecutively?
• Have you checked for spelling and grammatical
  errors?

• Have you allowed adequate margins and double
  spaced the text?
• Are all the materials referred to in the text
  listed in the references and vice versa?
• Have you checked the details of your references?
• Have you checked to make sure your style is
  correct?
• FR Blaxter, Hughes Tight. (1996). How to
  research. Philadelphia Open University Press.

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Conducting Briefings

• Identify presenter and assistant
• Be familiar with the equipment
• Check all equipment to make sure it works
• Make sure you have internet capability, if needed
• Use a ratio of 12 for presentation/questions
• Practice

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Conducting Briefings

• Be
• Informative
• Understandable
• True to life
• Professional
• Balanced
• Avoid jargon, acronyms or other forms of language
  that the audience will not understand

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Conducting Briefings

• Have enough handouts
• Speak up
• If you dont know an answer, admit it
• Have the assistant handle technical problems
• The size of the audience will determine when to
  take questions