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Quality Participation

Revved Up - Building Block Infographic

Quality participation happens when an individual feels that participating in an activity is satisfying and enjoyable. They experience outcomes that are important to them.  

Quality participation is the result of repeated and continuous quality experiences. Quality experiences are built from 6 building blocks:

Autonomy

Having independence, choice, control

Belongingness

Feeling included, accepted, respected, part of the group

Challenge

Feeling appropriately tested

Engagement

Being in-the-moment, focused, absorbed, fascinated

Mastery

Feeling a sense of achievement, accomplishment, competence

Meaning

Contributing toward obtaining a personal goal; feeling a sense of responsibility to others

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Knowledge Cycle

CDPP Research

CDPP 2.0 research is partner-driven and follows a cycle of knowledge creation and knowledge mobilization.  

Knowledge creation refers to activities and processes that result in new information, insights and evidence. Knowledge mobilization includes activities and processes that allow us to put the information, insights and evidence we acquire into action.