Flying WILD is measuring the success of its program in the following four ways:

• Educator Workshop Evaluation Form
• Facilitator Workshop Evaluation Form
• Training Participant Form

• educator feedback;

  Teachers participating in Flying WILD training workshops are asked to provide direct feedback on the usefulness and quality of the professional development opportunity. Educators using Flying WILD: An Educator's Guide to Celebrating Birds to help their students host a school bird festival are invited to provide feedback on their festival experience.

• measures of enhanced student knowledge;

Evaluation activities are incorporated into each activity in Flying WILD: An Educator's Guide to Celebrating Birds. A pre-test and post-test of knowledge to be administered to students at locations nationwide will provide one measure of Flying WILD's impact.

• a greater number of bird-related action projects completed by students; and

Following the best practices for service-learning, Flying WILD is designing a variety of assessment methods to determine the impact of student participation in bird conservation projects.

• more teachers integrating bird education into their curriculum.

The Flying WILD program keeps records of the number of educators trained in the program, their use of the program materials with students, and the number of students they involve in the program.

A formal evaluation of the Flying WILD program over a three year period ended in January 2006. The report was prepared by Edward J. McCrea. Click here to download a PDF of the full report.

A formal evaluation report of the recent Flying WILD pilot (funded by EPA's Region 6) is now available. Click here to download a PDF of the full report prepared by W. A. Weber, or read on for a brief summary of results.

The formal evaluation had two goals:

1) to describe the perceptions of teachers who participated in training designed to prepare them to implement the Flying WILD program;

2) to describe the Houston Initiative--the Flying WILD pilot program implemented at Johnston Middle School in the Houston Independent School District during the first two months of the 2004-2005 school year.

For resources designed to help educators evaluate the success of Flying WILD activities in their schools and classrooms, visit our Additional Resources page--and check back, more resources are on the way!