How to Use this Toolkit
A front-line service providerneeds to evaluate a strategy being implemented on campus. They have 3-student volunteers who have agreed to help them. They are preparing a training session. They print off the Trauma-Informed Evaluation section to review with their student volunteers in a training session. The tip sheet will not only provide a framework and jumping-off point for discussion during the training session, but will also ensure that the student evaluators have a quick reference guide to refer to during the evaluation process.
A director of a center that provides support and services for students and staff that have experienced gender-based sexual violence has developed an information session to help hard-to-reach student groups know about the services that are available. The director would like to use an arts-based evaluation approach because the student groups in question can be resistant to conventional forms of evaluation, such as questionnaires. The director uses this toolkit to explore whether an arts-based evaluation is suitable for this context, considering both the advantages and challenges of employing less conventional methods of evaluation. Upon choosing to use an arts-based method for the evaluation they then refer to the toolkit to help embed arts-based evaluation into their strategy.
A professor (in any discipline) wants to include information about the pervasiveness of rape culture and how it manifests in society into their course content. As they integrate the content into their curriculum, the professor would like to understand how students are receiving this information and integrating knowledge. This toolkit can be used to help create pedagogical strategies that are also evaluation tools. Employing this combined effort allows one to go beyond a standalone evaluation strategy.
A student organization develops an innovative strategy to address rape culture on campus. They want to evaluate their strategy and share the results with other student organizations on other campuses, so that their strategy can be replicated. They also want to use their evaluation data to support a request for additional funding from college administration. They are unsure of what approach to take or what questions to ask. They can use this toolkit to help set goals, objectives and outcomes for their evaluation. They review the approaches included in this toolkit and choose an approach that aligns with their objectives.