Overview When you have completed this assignment, you should be able to: Assess how current theories and concepts in leisure help us understand the role that recreation may play in the lives and the well-being of individuals and groups; Analyze social-psychological consequences on leisure behavior and leisure experiences across various contexts; and Apply planning theories and planning concepts to evaluate the development and delivery of leisure services. Step 1: Write an Introduction Step 2: Copy-Paste Your Constraints Paragraph To help verify the motive for your proposed program solution(s), please add the constraints paragraph (single spaced, font 10, Times New Roman) that you have written for assignment 1 on the first page of assignment 2.
Your constraints paragraph helps in establishing the situation for the program plan. Important: In your copy-pasted paragraph, bold the specific constraints you are addressing with your recreation service. This will help us, and yourself, in verifying that your plan is based on your literature review. Step 3: Give Your Program a Name The name should reflect your program goal and your target group. Step 4: Construct a Visual Planning Model Download the Recreation Program and Evaluation Template [DOCX] download docx document to build your recreation planning model. Write your information directly into the template which will then become your assignment 2. The filled in template will then look something like this (unfinished) example plan Logic Model Example [PDF] download pdf document. To build the logic model, think of a unique, possible and feasible solution to remedy the constraints identified in the Literature Review assessment. Your proposed solution(s) have to be in the form of a recreation program with specific activities that are facilitated/supervised by activity counsellor/s, program leaders or volunteers etc. In your model use topic-specific short sentences (not just key words) that are very succinct but informative in addressing the various steps in your logic model. For your activities (eg those listed in program outputs) include 3-5 examples to show what such activities would be (e.g., activity example: outdoor activities: trail running, orienteering, cycling, geo catching, canoeing). Ensure that each constraint is planned for in a separate row. Meaning if eg., constraint #1 is to eliminate accessibility difficulties then the entire first row is focusing on eliminating and addressing accessibility related issues. The same applies to constraint #2 and #3. Important: When you are finished with your plan verify that your short and long-term outcomes are in sequential order. Meaning that the short-term outcomes lead to the long-term outcomes and are specific to your target group and are able to eliminate your constraints. Also, check that the different steps in the model are connected and that the model is fully self-explanatory. Self-explanatory means that a person or group other than yourself could implement the proposed recreation program exclusively based on information in the plan without needing additional information to understand your plan. Step 5: Develop Questions for Evaluation In this step, you will list questions to be asked to participants and other stakeholders involved in your program.
Decide what questions need to be asked to determine if your program was successful and your predicted outcomes have been achieved? Choose three (3) outcomes from your short-term outcome list and three (3) outcomes from your long-term outcome list and develop three (3) example questions for each outcome. That means you have to develop 18 questions in total. Your questions need to be specific enough to be able to evaluate your outcomes. Play close attention that your evaluation questions are worded so that they are assessing the program outcomes NOT the participants or other stakeholders. Step 6: Identify a Research Tool In this step, you will describe what research tools need to be used to deliver the questions to the participants and other stakeholders and thus collect the data. Justify why you may use a scale rather than an open-ended questionnaire or a personal interview rather than a focus group etc. Support the choice of your research tool/s with an example from the current literature. Use at least one example from the literature to justify each research tool. You may use the same – or different- research tool/s for all short or all long-term questions. You do not need a different research tool for every question. Example for justification of research tool: Smith et. al., (2016) used open-ended questionnaires to evaluate youth participation because … which closely aligns with my program …etc. Make sure that the research tool you are suggesting is appropriate for your participant’s level of cognition and accessibility.
