Online Tool Introduction

8 January 2010

Nesta

Initial Brief

Nesta Requirement: Refine, create and deliver the Community Engagement and Sustainable Development Tool as more simplified, and cost effective, instrument that can be used for project evaluation.

The Tool then…

• Excel database to manage participant involvement.

• Paper based & online form facilitated through Survey Monkey.

• Communication managed through independent mailout system.

• Results exported in Excel format for analysis.

• Difficulty in tracking & managing responses.

• Time spent managing Baseline & Follow up surveys.

• Time intensive in managing participants & delivering messages.

• Complexities in identifying like for like data for accurate analysis.

Main issues…

The way forward…

• Address the issues of time and cost.• Provide a tool that offers ease of use whilst

maintaining and ensuring rigour and respectability.

Change! Tool objectives…

• Enable practitioners to evaluate the impact of their community engagement projects, programmes or interventions, on sustainable behaviour.

• Identify and track changes in an individual’s behaviour at different stages of their involvement in community-based environmental initiatives; and

• Provide automated reporting features.

The Change! Tool now…

• Easy to use administration control panel.

• Deliver secure online ‘before & after’ evaluation questionnaires.

• User friendly data management & communication system.

• One-touch and “real-time” reporting.

• Track and manage the online evaluation process from one area.

• Intuitive database to track & manage response rates.

• Communicate with participants through an automated email system.

• Easy to read tables and graphs produced in a PDF document.

Functionality

• The Lite Account is FREE account available to small organisations and community groups looking to add value and credibility to their evaluations.

• The Silver Account is designed for organisations conducting larger scale projects and comes with a series of additional tools to that of the Lite Account.

What the tool looks like

Starting to use the Change! Tool

Control panel

Adding participants

Confirming participants

Capturing the baseline

Capturing the baseline

Control panel: Activity information

Reminders

The follow-up forms

Analysis and real-time reporting

Analysis and real-time reporting

Analysis and real-time reporting

Both Lite and Silver Guidance offer real-time analysis of programme evaluation.

• Part 1: Responses to question sets

• Part 2: Community and demographic information

• Part 3: Qualitative responses (Silver Only)

• Part 1: Headline figures only

• Part 2: Responses to question sets (before and after)

• Part 3: Qualitative responses (Silver Only)

Baseline Results Post Evaluation Results