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Relationships build a community: People must be connected in order for sustainable community development to take place. Citizens at the center: Citizens should be viewed as actors—not recipients—in development. Leaders involve others: Community development is strongest when it involves a broad base of community action.
Community indicators are "measurements that provide information about past and current trends and assist planners and community leaders in making decisions that affect future outcomes". They provide insight into the overall direction of a community: whether it is improving, declining, or staying the same, or is some mix of all three.
The Resource Assessment workgroup is trained in assessment procedures during the Community Resource Assessment Training. The goals of the resource assessment are to identify existing evidence-based programs that address the priority factors, discern the gaps in existing program delivery, and recommend where new programs or policies are needed.
Social impact assessment (SIA) is a methodology to review the social effects of infrastructure projects and other development interventions. Although SIA is usually applied to planned interventions, the same techniques can be used to evaluate the social impact of unplanned events, for example, disasters, demographic change, and epidemics.
This involves collecting and analysing needs assessment data to determine goals, priorities and objectives. For example, a context evaluation of a literacy program might involve an analysis of the existing objectives of the literacy programme, literacy achievement test scores, staff concerns (general and particular), literacy policies and plans ...
Monitoring includes the continuous assessment of programmes based on early detailed information on the progress or delay of the ongoing assessed activities. [1] Evaluation involves the examination of the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and impact of activities in the light of specified objectives.
Community mapping, e.g. Venn diagrams, matrix scoring, ecograms, timelines To ensure that people are not excluded from participation, these techniques avoid writing wherever possible, relying instead on the tools of oral communication and visual communication such as pictures, symbols, physical objects and group memory. [ 15 ]
The term assessment is generally used to refer to all activities teachers use to help students learn and to gauge student progress. [8] Assessment can be divided for the sake of convenience using the following categorizations: Placement, formative, summative and diagnostic assessment; Objective and subjective