Beginner guides - pamphlets

These are basic guide handouts  designed as introduction to evaluation for those without technical backgrounds.  The series is:

What is program evaluation: A beginners guide
These handouts are also available here    http://www.IDEAS-int.org    Select Resources from the main menu on the Home Page and click on “M & E Capacity Building”.

These handouts each focus on one particular question or issue of program evaluation.
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/Evaluationbeginnersguide_WhatIsEvaluation.pdf    This one focuses on: What is program evaluation. 6/9/09, revised 11/15/09


http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/Evaluationbeginnersguide_evaluationquestion.pdf   This one focuses on: What are the evaluation questions. Using logic models to find the questions for the evaluation. 6/10/09


http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/Evaluationbeginnersguide_methodsoverview.pdf   This one focuses on: What are the methods of evaluation, briefly listing the methods. 6/10/09


http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/Evaluationbeginnersguide_surveys.pdf   This one focuses on: surveys. 6/10/09


http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/Evaluationbeginnersguide_qual.pdf    This one focuses on: observation, interviews, focus groups. 6/10/09


http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/Evaluationbeginnersguide_cause.pdf   This one focuses on: cause, how to determine whether a program caused it's intended
outcome. 6/10/09. Revised 12/31/09




These each focus on  specific challenges to evaluation

 
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/Evaluationbeginnersguide_challenge1.pdf   This one focuses on one of the major challanges in evaluation: getting an answer to the question about whether the program has an effect. 10/17/09. Revised 11/12/09 and again in 12/31/09
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/Evaluationbeginnersguide_challenge2.pdf   This one focuses on another major challange in evaluation: whether the evaluation results are useful to people involved in the program. 10/18/09. Revised 11/12/09



This version includes ideas about the entire evaluation process, all in one handout.
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/evaluationbeginnersguide.pdf     What is evaluation, methods design, questions. 5/4/09, revised 2/12/10



Please let me know whether you have any questions, comments, suggestions!  gsociology (at)  yahoo (dot) com
These sites link to the guides or list the guides


American Evaluation Association's   http://eval.org/aeaweb.asp   microblog of resources and   http://twitter.com/aeaweb   twitter page (you have to click 'more').

Active Campaign How to make better web surveys   http://www.activecampaign.com/blog/how-to-make-better-web-surveys/   recommends our guides

Advanced Evaluation Services   http://www.advancedevaluation.net/links.htm   links page 

Alan Craig's Help! I’m a New Learning Center Director What Do I Do Now?   http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~acraig/presentations.htm   slide 56 of 61.  This is at Georgia Perimeter College

Arroyo Research Services   http://www.arroyoresearchservices.com/content/view/19/30/   resources page

Australian Domestic & Family Violence Clearinghouse   http://www.austdvclearinghouse.unsw.edu.au/evaluation.htm   evaluation page

Cyfernet. Most of the guides are here   http://www.cyfernet.org/pagelist.php?c=1374   design and methods page
    and a bunch are here   http://www.cyfernet.org/pagelist.php?c=1378   general information page
    Some are here    http://www.cyfernet.org/pagelist.php?c=1373   Evaluation handbooks and toolkits page

Danish Evaluation Society   http://www.danskevalueringsselskab.dk/links.htm   links page

Evaluation Portal   http://www.evaluation.lars-balzer.name/links/online-material-how-to-do-evaluation/english-language/   How to do evaluation page

David Fetterman's   http://homepage.mac.com/profdavidf/guides.htm   list of guides

Health Promotion Clearinghouse   http://www.hpclearinghouse.ca/resources/lists.asp   resource list, see Evaluation Methods.

Institute of Organizational and Program Evaluation Research   http://www.cgu.edu/pages/506.asp   list of links

Institutional Research Consultants   http://www.ircorporation.com/frame-resources.htm   resources page

International and Comparative Social Policy Group   http://www.globalwelfare.net/teaching.htm   resources/teaching page.  Also on this page   http://www.globalwelfare.net/education.htm   although I'm not sure where this page is located at their site.

International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Logic & Methodology   http://www.rc33.org/   see their links page

Betty Jung's   http://www.bettycjung.net/Evaluation.htm   Evaluation page

Dr. Leora Lawton, Lecturer, UC Berkeley Sociology   http://www.techsociety.com/cal/soc190/   This is the class page for Community Based Research.  See Jan 27 link.
(visiting/lecturer   http://sociology.berkeley.edu/profiles/lawton/   )

Carter McNamara's Basic Guide to Program Evaluation   http://www.managementhelp.org/evaluatn/fnl_eval.htm  

National Business Research Institute, Inc   http://www.nbrii.com/Other_Resources.html   list of resources

NIH Performance Assessments, Science of Science Management, October 2008 Science of Science Management Meeting   http://nihperformance.nih.gov/ScieceofScienceOctoberMeeting.htm   listed in the bibliography

Ohio Evaluators Group   http://www.opeg.org/links.php   list of links

Queensland Government, >  Cross Government Project to Reduce Social Isolation of Older People   http://www.communityservices.qld.gov.au/seniors/isolation/consultation/best-practice-guidelines.html   Best Practices Guideline

Research resources for the social sciences   http://socsciresearch.com/r7.html   sociology

South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association   http://www.samea.org.za/module-Web_Links-category-cid-4.phtml   guides, handbooks and manuals, listed as "basic guide handouts"

Survey Software Online   http://www.surveysoftwareonline.com/resources.html   resources page

Virtual Library - Evaluation   http://www.policy-evaluation.org/   in the Educational Material, articles, papers, reports section.

William Patterson University, library links about sociology   https://liberty.wpunj.edu/library/Resources/sociology.html  

Yukiko Watanabe's   http://sites.google.com/site/yukikow/resources    list of evaluation resources




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