Question | Research and Evaluation II | University of Texas at Arlington

Research Instructions – 3 pages in total.

a. describe the program and the organization’s history (1 page)

     -introduce the agency and give a brief description of their services. Provide detailed information about the specific intervention/program you are assessing.

b. provide a literature review of the problem and different evaluation methods used in the past to study this issue (1 page)

      -use journal articles, government data, and news articles, or data from your agency to provide details about the problem at your agency

c. identifying the program evaluation problem (1 page)

     -give specific details of any meetings with staff of your agency; what did you learn that they wanted to have addressed? what is the specific problem you are aiming to address with this evaluation?

     -What is the research question your evaluation is trying to answer?

(The organization is CoAct from North Texas, please look into their website
https://www.coactntx.org/)

We choose to focus mostly on the mindful market that CoAct does.

Problem

Food disparity issues and reaching more people

Expanding access to fresh local food to lower income communities. Food disparity

C. Program evaluation problem – people aren’t coming.

(I’ve also attached and transcription of the initial meeting that was held with Jesse (Founder) – Please go through it, it might be helpful.