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First Steps for Effective Interfaith Assessment

What Should I Assess?

What Should I Assess?

Assessing co-curricular interfaith programs does not need to be difficult. Taking a step-by-step approach makes the process manageable and organized from the start. This document helps you succeed with the first—and most important—step of an effective interfaith assessment, which is determining a clear assessment purpose. Arriving at a clear assessment purpose provides focus and guides the assessment questions you will ask, information you will collect, and how you might use your assessment findings. Our two-part assessment planning resources help you determine what you should assess (Part 1) and how to do so (Part 2: Planning for Interfaith Assessment). This document (Part 1) will enable you to write a clear assessment purpose statement, which is a statement that explains what you hope to learn from your interfaith assessment.

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Your Interfaith Assessment Purpose

Your Interfaith Assessment Purpose

Putting answers to these questions together to develop an assessment purpose statement is the first step in planning your interfaith assessment. This purpose statement keeps the entire assessment process—including the collection of information and sharing and using the assessment results—focused (Henning & Roberts, 2016).