This accounting involves both the stewardship of resources and the evaluation of achievements in relation to specific outcomes. The second element is concerned with maintaining a highly effective organization for program development. The Extension Program Council, either as a total organization or through its executive board, provides leadership in evaluating the overall Extension educational program. This evaluation should be on-going and begin as soon as action has started on any part of the program or organization. Extension agents, with the Extension Program Council, should provide for systematic follow-up and evaluation of program action.
Evaluation needs to be on-going.
On a long-range basis, agents should help the Council determine how well the county's program of education and action is understood and supported by citizens. Evaluation of this kind may follow the Council's work in distributing and interpreting the Long-Range Extension Program to people in the county. In this respect, the Council can determine the degree to which all interested groups were actually contacted, and reactions of various groups toward the county's educational program. The Council will evaluate its own leadership in getting the long-range program implemented. If ways of strengthening plans are found, the plans should be revised accordingly.