Program Evaluation 4
Focusing on Evaluation

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What are you going to evaluate?

1. What is the purpose of the evaluation?

2. Who will use the evaluation? How will they use it?

Who/users:	How will they use the information?

3. What questions will the evaluation seek to answer?

What information do you need to answer the questions?

What I wish to know:	Indicators-How I will know it?

4. When is the evaluation needed?

5. What resources do you need?

• Time available to work on evaluation:
  
  
  
• Money:
  
  
  
• People: professionals, para-professionals, volunteers, participants

Collecting the Information

1. What sources of information will you use?

• Existing information:
  
  
  
  
• People:
  
  
  
  
• Observations:
  
  
  
  
• Pictorial records:

2. What data collection method(s) will you use?

___survey
___interview
___observation
___group techniques
___case study
___tests
___photos/videos
___document review
___testimonials
___expert panel
___simulated problems or situation
___journal, log diary
___unobtrusive measures
___other (list):

3. Instrumentation: What is needed to record the information?

4. What data collection procedures will be used?

5. When will you collect data for each method you've chosen?

Method:	Before Program	During Program	Immediately After	Later

6. Will a sample be used?

___No
___Yes
If yes, describe the procedure you will use:

7. Who will collect the data?

Using the Information

1. How will the data be analyzed?

• Data analysis methods:

• Who is responsible:

2. How will the information be interpreted and by whom?

3. How will the evaluation be communicated and shared?

to whom:	when/where/how to present:

Managing the Evaluation

1. Implementation plan:

• time line and responsibilities
• management chart
• budget

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ENTRY DATE:: December 1998