Reporting Your Impact: Telling Your Story 

Telling your story — whether through reports, documents, social media, interpretative events, or conversations— helps communicate the value that Extension provides to Arkansans. It also helps our stakeholders understand how investments in Division of Agriculture research and educational programs strengthen Arkansas communities and families.

Part of the program evaluation process is reporting our efforts and our impacts. The following resources can help you navigate the reporting process.

• Guide for Writing State Impacts
• County Impact Tip Sheet
• Common Errors in Impact Reports
• 2021 Impact Writing Training Presentation

External Resources

• American Evaluation Association: Guiding Principles for Evaluation

The American Evaluation Association’s mission is to improve evaluation practices and methods, increase
evaluation use, promote evaluation as a profession, and support the contribution of evaluation to the
generation of theory and knowledge about effective human action. Evaluation involves assessing the
strengths and weaknesses of programs, policies, personnel, products, and organizations.

• Journal of Extension

The Journal of Extension (JOE) is the official refereed journal of the U.S. Cooperative Extension System. It seeks to expand and update the research and knowledge base for Extension professionals and other adult educators to improve their effectiveness. JOE is an electronic journal, available only on the Internet.

UADA Program Evaluation Roadmap Webpage