1. Developing an Evaluation Plan

2. Why should you have an evaluation plan?
guides you through each step of the evaluation
helps you decide what sort of information you and your stakeholders really need
keeps you from gathering information that isn't needed
helps you identify the best possible ways to get the needed information
helps you come up with a reasonable and realistic timeline for evaluation
helps you improve your initiative

3. When should you develop an evaluation plan?
As soon as possible!
The best time is before you implement the initiative.
After that, you can do it anytime, but the earlier, the better.

4. What are the different types of stakeholders?
Community groups
Grantmakers and funders
University-based researchers

5. Balancing costs and benefits:
Ask the following questions:
What do you need to know?
What is required by the community?
What is required by funding?
Evaluation should take up about % of your total budget.

6. How do you develop an evaluation plan?
Clarify program objectives and goals
Develop evaluation questions
Develop evaluation methods
Set up a timeline for evaluation activities

7. Sample Evaluation Questions
Who participates?
How many hours?
Why do participants enter and leave your programs?
Are they satisfied?
What services are given?
Does it meet local needs?
How has behavior changed?
Is it beneficial?

8. Evaluation Methods Monitoring and feedback system
Process & outcome measures, observations
Member satisfaction survey
Goal attainment scaling
Behavioral surveys
Interviews
Community-level indicators

9. How do you set up a timeline for evaluation activities?
Complete a table listing:
Key evaluation questions
Type of evaluation measures to be used to answer them
Type of data collection
Experimental design

10. When do feedback and reports need to be provided?
Whenever it's appropiate
The end of the evaluation
Periodically throughout the project o initiative

11. When should evaluation end?
After the project ends
When the final report is due

12. What products should you get from the evaluation?
A report includes:
- Expected changes
- Behavior changes
- Community changes
Specific tools
Annual reports
Quarterly/monthly reports
Anything else agreed upon

13. What sort of standards should you follow?
Fairness, accuracy, effectiveness
The 1994 Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation standards
Standards the committee outlined