Interactive Evaluations

Last Up Date: January, 2003

Author: USDA, NRCS, SSI. Frank Clearfield.
Developer: USDA, NRCS, SSI. Kevin Boyle

This tool is an on-line, interactive framework for making social evaluations. It serves as a feedback loop to agency staff and customers who are trying to learn and apply social science concepts (i.e. leadership, social capital).

The framework helps social science evaluation tools to be rapidly built and placed on-line. The authors of these tools test the validity of their models and adjust them, based on the feedback generated by the customers using the evaluations. Feedback not only flows to the customer but also back to the tool maker, thereby making science dynamic and interactive.

The first tool, Adding Up Social Capital, can be started by clicking the following hyperlink:
Adding Up Social Capital

The second tool, The Leadership Assessment Instrument, can be started by clicking the following hyperlink:
The Leadership Assessment Instrument

The third tool, Locally Led Evaluation, can be found on the Social Sciences Institute home page, and can be started by clicking the following hyperlink:
Evaluating a locally led program