1. How will you know what you’re proposing is successful?
Evaluation Section
How will you know what you’re proposing is successful?

2. Important Terms Formative vs. summative evaluation Baseline Outcomes
Formative - gathering information during the project to provide immediate feedback for change.
Summative - primary evaluation at the end of the project
Baseline - measure against which you will measure change (pre-project vs. post)
Outcomes - measurable results of a project

3. Types of Evaluations Outcomes-Based (summative, generally)
Process-Based (formative, generally)
External Evaluation

4. Qualitative Methods of Evaluation
Concerned with examining the process, meanings, properties, or characteristics that are not easily quantified (soft data)
Journaling
Interviews/focus groups
observations
Surveys

5. Quantitative Methods of Evaluation
Concerned with numerical data analysis (hard data)
surveys
testing hypotheses
manipulation of variables
empirical data collection
statistics

6. Logic Models Way to present an integrated project and evaluation plan
Inputs- resources (money, time, equipment) the organization needs to undertake the project
Outputs - measurable/tangible effe ts of the activities
Outcomes - changes that will come about because of the project. Initial (immediate), intermediate (at or near the end of a project), and long-term (possibly after the project)
Indicators - data used to determine whether the planned outcomes of the project were met

8. Logic Models (contd.) Anderson (2005) Theory of Change
In order to develop a program based in the theory of change…
Identify long-term goal or outcome (what are you trying to achieve?)
Work backwards from the goal by identifying the conditions necessary to achieve it (actions, people, setting, etc.)
Identify the interventions you will need to perform to create these preconditions (actions)
Develop indicators that describe how you will know when each precondition is met (evaluate)