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Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee


2012 Cattle Industry Convention: Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee Materials:

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee – Aug. 2, 2011 Committee Meeting AGENDA

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee – May 17, 2011 Committee Meeting Minutes

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee – May 17, 2011 Meeting Report:

The Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee had an extremely productive meeting May 17 in Denver.

Special guest Richard Gebhart, who not only had a long career in evaluation of billions of dollars in military programs, but also teaches statistics at University of Tulsa and currently serves on the Operating Committee as a Federation representative, presented some valuable information about statistical processes in evaluation and outcome-based evaluation.

The committee also had an thorough discussion about the future of the checkoff evaluation program and how the program could be improved, in both the long- and short-term. Some of the meeting outcomes included:

  • The committee will take a more active role in oversight of the evaluation program, including evaluation processes. The Evaluation Committee reaffirmed its role to measure program effectiveness in accomplishing industry and program goals, objectives and strategies to inform the strategy and funding decisions of producer leaders, most specifically the Operating Committee.
  • Evaluation should be ongoing, and not just happen once or twice a year.
  • The evaluation program will work toward collecting more valuable evaluation data and developing a more useful method of reporting evaluation data.
  • The committee will oversee establishment of data trends for programs. These should show measurable program results over time for programs that receive funding year-to-year. This means continuing programs should develop and track meaningful, outcome-based measures over time.
  • The committee will oversee development of a visual tracking and reporting system for key program objectives and progress, as well as macro evaluation metrics. This is sometimes called a “dashboard.” Such a system should be updated regularly and viewable by producer leaders and decision-makers at any time.
  • Each AR submitted in 2011 to consider for 2012 funding should contain at least one outcome-based measurable objective, in addition to appropriate process-based objectives. The committee directed evaluation staff to work with contractors to ensure inclusion of these objectives. These will be reviewed by the committee prior to summer conference.
  • The committee believes state beef councils provide valuable and important input into the evaluation process and will continue to do the online, quantitative survey of beef councils annually, taking that data into account when further developing evaluation metrics. Staff is directed to solicit state beef council input about how each council evaluates funding requests as well as how each council evaluated program effectiveness. From that, staff will prepare a report for the committee to see if there are ideas at the state level that could be useful to the national program.

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee - Feb. 4, 2011 Meeting Minutes

FY QSBC Evaluation Survey Data for Feb. 4, 2011 Meeting 

History of Outside Evaluations, for Feb. 4, 2011 Meeting

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, Feb. 4, 2011 – Committee Agenda

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, July 28, 2010 – Committee Minutes

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, July 28, 2010 – Final Outside Evaluation of 2009 Producer Communications AR – Executive Summary

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, July 28, 2010 – Final Ouside Evaluation of 2009 Producer Communications AR – Full Report

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, July 28, 2010 – Final Outside Evaluation of 2009 National Beef Cook-Off AR

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, July 28, 2010 – Committee Agenda

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, Jan.  28, 2010 – Committee Minutes

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, July 15, 2009 – Committee Minutes

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, July 15, 2009 - Beef Checkoff Return on Investment Presentation; Dr. Ron Ward (ppt) (pdf) (for quicker download, use the pdf version to view)

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, July 15, 2009 – Committee Agenda

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, April 24, 2009 – Committee Minutes

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, April 24, 2009 – Committee Agenda

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, Jan. 28, 2009 – Committee Minutes

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, Jan. 28, 2009 – Committee Agenda

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, July 16,  2008 – Committee Minutes 

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, July 16, 2008 – Committee Agenda 

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, Feb. 6, 2008 – Committee Minutes 

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, Feb. 6, 2008 – Committee Agenda

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, Nov. 27, 2007 – Committee Minutes 

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, July 17, 2007 – Committee Minutes 

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, July 17, 2007 – Committee Agenda 

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, Jan. 31, 2007 – Committee Minutes 

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, Jan. 31,  2007 – Committee Agenda 

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, July 2006 – Committee Minutes 

Joint Evaluation Advisory Committee, July 2005- Committee  Minutes