Success Outcome Markers in Extension (SOME): Evaluating the Effects of Transformational Learning Programs

Authors

S Kay Rockwell, University of NevadaFollow
LaDeane Jha, University of NebraskaFollow
Eileen Krumbach, University of NebraskaFollow

Volume

41

Issue

5

Abstract

Success outcome markers (SOMs), and the process of creating them, offer Extension a new approach to plan, monitor, and evaluate programs. Generating success outcome markers helps to carefully determine all partners (including beneficiaries) who may need to change to accomplish program goals and identifies steps to continuously track incremental successes. Hard-to-measure human behaviors become more concrete when success outcome markers are listed. To successfully use SOMs, one must (a) create a vivid and compelling vision, (b) list your WHOs, (c) write an outcome challenge for each WHO, and (d) determine SOMs. Then decide how to monitor and report on each SOM.

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Rockwell, S., Jha, L., & Krumbach, E. (2003). Success Outcome Markers in Extension (SOME): Evaluating the Effects of Transformational Learning Programs. The Journal of Extension, 41(5), Article 5. https://open.clemson.edu/joe/vol41/iss5/5