Water Festival Evaluation Does it Make a Difference?

Title

Water Festival Evaluation Does it Make a Difference?

Author

Shirin Nuesslein

Host Organization

HMK Children's Water Festival, Irene Heaven

Supervising Faculty

Michael Fox, Trent School of the Environment

Reference Number

TP-651

Date

2012

Location of Document

Online

Area

Haliburton
Muskoka
Kawartha

Subject

Program Evaluation
Environmental Studies

Abstract

Evaluation plays an increasingly significant role in assessing the pedagogical efficacy of Environmental Education programming. Small scale community organization, especially, experience many constraints in conducting rigorous evaluation. In this report, the Haliburton-Muskoka-Kawartha Children's Water Festival is taken as a case study to examine the discourse on evaluation in non-formal Environmental Education. It is envisaged that the critiques, recommendations and the developed evaluation tool presented in this report will serve the HMK Children's Water Festival in its continual improvement of organizational functioning as well as accountability to funders.

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Reference

Shirin Nuesslein, Water Festival Evaluation Does it Make a Difference?, 2012