For this week, I will be doing step 4 of the proposal, which is: Goal, Objectives, and tasks.
While I have already blogged about my goal and objectives, I have yet to talk much about tasks. Additionally, the previous blogs that contained my goal and objectives needed some editing and revision. Hopefully once this part is done, I will be able to successfully move on to step 5 of the proposal, which is: Evaluation and Sustainability. Most of the following may seem repetitive, but it is based on revsions made on previous work.
Goal: To prevent serious injury or death of the youth of Arkansas that work or live on farms.
Objectives: To help the youth of Arkansas understand the dangers of living or working on the farm.
To train the youth of Arkansas better and safer practices of living and working on farms.
Tasks: The tasks required to accomplish this goal are many. The first thing that must be done will be to determine what the most crucial topics are. Once this is done, a knowledge pre-test will be administered at a farm safety workshop.
In the first step of determining what the needs are, a Delphi study will be used in an effort to identify (from an expert panel of farmers, extension agents, and secondary agriculture instructors) what the most crucial needs are. Those items that are listed by the expert panel will move to round 2 of the Delphi. Round 2 will consist of listing the items from the previous round and aksing the panel what their level of agreement is that each item should be included in a farm safety program. Once that round is completed, the third round will commence.
The third round will consist of asking the expert panel if they would like to reconisder any item that was previously deemed not necessary for the farm safety program. It will be in this round that the expert panel will have the oppurtunity to reconsider any previous decision that was made.
The fourth and final round will be to determine the level of importance for each item when including those items in the program. This will be done a scale from 1 to 10 with 10 being the most important.
It will be with this method that topic areas will be selected for the farm safety program.
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Your goal sounds good, Mark, but I think your objectives need to be more specific, measurable and concise, especially the first one which reads as more of a goal than an objective. Your objectives could be something like: "To conduct x number of training sessions with x number of Arkansas youth that work on farms during the following period"... or "To increase Arkansas youth's understanding of farm safety issues based on the outcomes scores of some standard testing apparatus..."
ReplyDeleteI also think that determining what the crucial topics are through the use of a Delphi study almost has to be an objective. It seems like you would have to do this before any of the other objectives could be tackled. Tasks would be something like "developing the training materials." You might want to revisit the book's definition of goals, objectives, and tasks and ask the critical questions that the book proposes: "if I complete all of my tasks, will I have fulfilled my objectives and if I complete my objectives will I have achieved my goal?"
Mind the differences between tasks and activities, of course, and how they work to support objectives, which work to support goals. Who will be on the expert panel? What are their qualifications? Do those qualifications help you with the grant logic?
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