Evaluation Planning Resources

THANK YOU for participating in It’s Not the Plan, It’s the Planning: Strategies for Evaluation Plans and Planning at the American Evaluation Association Summer Evaluation Institute.

If you did not receive the handout, you can download it here.*

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Here are resources specific to evaluation planning, many of which were mentioned during the course:

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FRAMEWORKS:

• CDC Framework for Evaluation in Public Health
• Culturally Responsive Evaluation
• Culturally Responsive Evaluation: Theory, Practice, and Future Implications
• Better Evaluation Rainbow Framework

PLANNING GUIDES:

• W.K. Kellogg’s The Step-by-Step Guide to Evaluation
• Measure Evaluation’s Getting to an Evaluation Plan
• OPRE’s The Program Manager’s Guide to Evaluation
• Innovation Network’s Evaluation Plan Workbook

LEARNING AGENDAS:

• OES’s Evidence Act Toolkit: A Guide to Developing Your Agency’s Learning Agenda
• Urban Institute’s Evidence Toolkit: Learning Agendas
• USAID’s Tips for Creating a Learning Agenda

OTHER FREE GUIDES:

• EvaluATE (Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technical Education) website resources for evaluation planning
• Better Evaluation’s Preparing for an Evaluation – Guidelines and Tools for Pre-Evaluation Planning

Resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

• A Framework for Program Evaluation
• Program Evaluation
• Evaluation Development Tools
• Evaluate Training: Building an Evaluation Plan

EVALUATION PLAN TEMPLATES:

• BetterEvaluation Template for Evaluation Plan
• University of Wisconsin Extension Program Evaluation and Development – Planning a Program Evaluation Booklet & Worksheet

WEBSITES & REPOSITORIES:

• Better Evaluation
• Center for Evaluation and Research – Tobacco Control Evaluation Center
• University of Wisconsin-Extension Program Development and Evaluation ˚
• Western Michigan University Evaluation Center
• We all Count

BOOK:

A Practical Guide to Program Evaluation Planning 

QUESTION BANKS FOR EVALUATION PLANNING:

• Evaluation Planning Question Bank
• Program Evaluation Questions Bank

ARTICLES WITH GOOD INFORMATION ON EVALUATION PLANNING:

• Developing a Process-Evaluation Plan for Assessing Health Promotion Program Implementation: A How-To Guide
• Formative, Summative, Performance, Impact: What Does it All Mean?
• Quality Criteria for Evaluation Plans
• Three Tips for a Strong NSF Proposal Evaluation Plan

EXAMPLES OF EVALUATION RFPS FOR EXAMINATION AND STUDY:

Here’s what we’re using in the workshop for our case study exercise:

• Step Up (5 pgs; mentoring program for young adults)
• Collaborative for Children (6 pgs; child learning outcomes)
• Foodshed Alliance (4 pgs; access to healthy food)
• APHA (4 pgs; public health workforce)
• San Francisco Arts Commission (6 pgs; endowment)

Here are a few additional RFPs just for information and study:

• Philadelphia Zoo (11 pgs; teen workforce program)
• NACCHO (6 pgs; health dept recruitment and retention)
• Grow Pittsburgh RFP
• Sojourner Family Peace Center RFP
• We are New York (WANY) Program Evaluation and Ethnography RFP

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