Beginner guides - pamphlets

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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”.
The handouts are also at My M&E, in the How to / Community Guides  http://www.mymande.org/?q=howto_front_comm&x=user     

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. Was posted there some time back. You can see the posting on the AEA   http://twitter.com/aeaweb   twitter page. Have to click "more" until you get to January 6, 2010. The posting is called "Handouts to introduce evaluation to those without technical background"

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

Australasian Evaluation Society   http://www.aes.asn.au/links/   links 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

Genuine Evaluation   http://genuineevaluation.com/   from Patricia Rogers and Jane Davidson, see Useful Links

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

International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation   http://ioce.net/resources/links.shtml   links page
   Same organization as here   http://internationalevaluation.com/resources/links.shtml  

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  

Mohammed Hasan Mohaqeq Moein's blogspot page   http://empowermentevaluation.blogspot.com/   

My M&E also lists the second handout here   http://www.mymande.org/?q=content/what-program-evaluation-what-are-evaluation-questions  

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

NTTAC.    https://www.nttac.org/   select workshops and conferences, then past conferences. It's OJJDP 2010 New Grantee Orientation, from April 6-7 2010. See this "Evaluating Your Program: Developing Successful and Sustainable Programs. Presenter: Patricia San Antonio, Ph.D., Senior Evaluation Specialist, CSR, Incorporated

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


I also presented these guides at the Virtual Conference on Methodology in Programme Evaluation - April 7th  to 9th 2010  
http://wpeg.wits.ac.za/main_site/downloads.htm  


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