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Responses/Reflections during Project PlanningResponses partway through projectResponses at Project ConclusionResponses after conclusion, are impacts happening?
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GENERAL INFO
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Project Name
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Project Funding Source
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Overall Goal of the Effort
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Origin of the Question
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Team Members
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Inputs
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I.1.The team is composed of agency representatives, researchers and others with the appropriate knowledge, motivation and perspective to address the problem. Team includes members with skill in facilitation and project management. Team is balanced in terms of race, gender, career stage and other dimensions of identity.
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I.2. The personnel time and other resources (equipment, travel) allocated to research, agency input, engagement and tool development is appropriate for the problem context)
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I.3. Research team works collaboratively among themselves, and members have training or experience in collaborative research.
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I.4. Target agency indicates commitment through contribution of services, funds, time, and a specific point person.
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I.5. Target agency representatives articulate a need for this research (i.e., they have a problem they want to solve through this research project).
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I.6. Target agency representatives perceive a path to application of the research findings.
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I.7. There is a clear plan for communication, engagement, and/or collaboration between research and management team.
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I.8. Research team and agency representatives have preexisting working relationships, or sufficient time is built into the project to develop relationships.
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I.9. Project includes a clear plan and resources appropriate for hosting and maintenance of any tools or products developed.
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Process
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P.1. Target agency representatives begin participating at an early stage of the project (the vision or problem definition phases tend to be the appropriate stages, compared to the research design, data collection, data analysis, knowledge/meaning making, testing, results, dissemination of knowledge and evaluation phases).
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P.2. Participants perceive the frequency and medium of communication between research and management teams as sufficient to reach project goals.
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P.3. Participants perceive they had equitable opportunities to participate in the project via meetings, conversations and email.
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P.4. Target agency representatives are satisfied with the level of engagement.
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P.5. Researchers are satisfied with the level of engagement.
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P.6. Challenges within project are resolved in mutually agreeable ways.
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P.7. Researchers are aware of whether and how information was used or not used by the target agency.
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Outputs
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OP.1. Number of peer-reviewed articles.
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OP.2. Number of technical reports/gray literature.
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OP.3. Number workshops or meetings to disseminate findings.
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OP.4. Findings are delivered in a timely manner to meet agency’s decision calendar or timeline.
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OP.5. Findings are delivered in an appropriate and readily accessible format to the agency representatives (final reports, management brief, website, media piece, tool, map, or other product).
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Outcomes
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OC.1. Project goals are achieved (formal assessment by evaluator or researcher and agency representative perceptions with regard to completion of goals).
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OC.2. Participants perceive science as credible.
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OC.3. Outputs meet the standard the agency applies to ‘‘usable’’ information for action.
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OC.4. Agency representatives perceive the science as salient to their needs and problems.
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OC.5 Researchers perceive agency knowledge as salient to their needs and problems.
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OC.6. Participants perceive that the process of producing the science was legitimate (i.e., all participants had opportunities to contribute).
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OC.7. Participants show mutual interest in longer-term collaboration (express interest in working together again).
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Impacts
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IM.1. ‘‘Enlightening’’ use of information (agency representative perceives self to be better informed about an issue).
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IM.2 “Empowering” use of information (agency representative perceives self to be more capable of solving future problems or achieving future goals).
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IM.3. ‘‘Problem Understanding’’ use of information (more specific than Enlightenment, better comprehension of particular problems).
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IM.4. ‘‘Instrumental’’ use of information (agency representative finds out what to do and how to do something; gained new skills).
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IM.5. ‘‘Factual’’ use of information (provision of precise data, for example).
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IM.6. ‘‘Confirmational’’ use of information (previous information was verified).
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IM.7. ‘‘Projective’’ use of information (agency gained better understanding of possible future scenarios).
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IM.8. ‘‘Motivational’’ use of information (encouraged someone to keep going (or not) on search for information).
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IM.9. ‘‘Personal or Political’’ use of information (helped a person gain control of a situation or avoid a bad situation).
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IM.10. Findings from study are explicitly used in agency planning, resource allocation, or policy decision.
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IM.11. Findings contribute to meeting conservation objectives.
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