Youth evaluation

Are you asking youth to take part in an evaluation?

If so, you need to think differently about evaluation with young people.

In this section:

  • Learn why smiley face evaluations should be avoided.
  • Pick up some new, creative evaluation strategies.
  • Learn 5 tips for evaluating with youth.
  • Learn 5 questions to get youth reflecting


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  • Put your smiley face surveys away. I mean it, now.
  • Don't use them.
  • Ever.
  • Check out this video to hear why I will fight to the death to get rid of smiley face surveys.
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Creative evaluation strategies

Want to collect evaluation data from youth but don't want to do another survey?

Check out some of my tips and tricks for creative evaluation strategies in this short video.



5 strategies to improve youth evaluation

Want to learn more about youth evaluation?

Sign up on the home page to be updated on the next youth evaluation training.

You'll learn:

  • Tips for conducting evaluation with youth.
  • Top considerations for designing measures for youth .
  • Lessons learned from a seasoned evaluator.
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