Basic guides - handouts

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




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
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 is an early version, which 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



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Last updated 11/15/09