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The Eleanor P. Eells Award for Excellence in Evaluation & Research is designed to honor programs in which camp professionals conduct or apply meaningful, quality research or evaluation to improve program practice and/or uncover findings that are useful to other camps. Successful nominations can either focus on a particular project or initiative, or describe an ongoing system of continuous program improvement.

Nominations typically fall into one of the following categories:

  • Evaluation projects implement reliable evaluation strategies and use evaluation data for meaningful program improvement.
  • Research projects address questions intended to generate new knowledge or understanding. Findings can applied to similar camps or populations.

Nominations are judged the following criteria:

  1. Purpose and/or research questions are clearly stated and appropriate.
  2. Multiple stakeholder groups are engaged in the development of the project, such as frontline staff, parents, community partners, past or current participants.
  3. Clear plan for ensuring ethical treatment of participants and data, including plan for protecting privacy and consent/assent processes.
  4. Data collection methods selected to fit the project purpose/research questions; multiple methods used where appropriate.
  5. Surveys and other evaluation tools tested to ensure reliability.
  6. Findings are shared in a timely way and with multiple stakeholder groups.
  7. Narrative describes specifically how findings are used to improve camp programs, practices, or policies.

The award review committee will recognize the nominations that best represent these criteria. To qualify for nomination for this Eleanor P. Eells Award for Excellence in Evaluation & Research, a program or camp must have been in operation for at least two years (planning and development time do not count), membership in ACA is not required. It is desired that a representative of the organization receiving this award be present to accept it at the ACA National Conference in February, 2020 in San Diego, CA.

Nominations are due by October 26, 2019.

Have questions? We are more than happy to discuss. Please feel free to contact the coordinator of the award:

Mary Rogers
Executive Director, Sherwood Forest
MaryR@SherwoodForestSTL.org

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Document fully leadership and meritorious service in at least 4 of the following areas:

(recognitions, research, teaching, administration, writing, lecturing, educational background)

ACA responsibilities and achievements (noteworthy leadership)
Field/affiliate office, Regional, and National

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Project Description: 1000 words

Please tell us about the project, keeping in mind that the committee is looking for evidence of the following:

  1. Clearly stated purpose and/or research questions.
  2. Multiple stakeholder groups are engaged in the development of the project, such as frontline staff, parents, community partners, past or current participants.
  3. Clear plan for ensuring ethical treatment of participants and data, including plan for protecting privacy and consent/assent processes.
  4. Data collection methods selected to fit the project purpose/research questions; multiple methods used where appropriate.
  5. Surveys and other evaluation tools tested to ensure reliability.
  6. Findings are shared in a timely way and with multiple stakeholder groups.
  7. Narrative describes specifically how findings are used to improve camp programs, practices, or policies.
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