As your programming activities grow in scope and complexity, so too should your evaluation efforts. Increasing the scope and complexity of evaluation often requires deliberate efforts to build the evaluation capacity of your organization or community team...

Planning an agenda is one beneficial tool to make the most of your time together. Best if shared before a meeting, they help ensure attendees are aware of the time and place of the meeting, the purpose of the meeting, and the agenda items up for discussion. Check out these templates to help you get started.

When you are gearing up to conduct a Community Readiness Assessment, it can be difficult to know where to start. This worksheet will walk you through the various elements in your community and help you determine...

One of the hallmarks of Comprehensive programming is that complementary strategies are implemented across all levels of the social ecology and across overlapping populations. This worksheet maps the outcomes of each strategy you are using onto the social-ecological model, helps you identify and plan for the comprehensiveness...

When conducting an outcome evaluation of your programming, it is a good idea to double-check that the content you are implementing matches your outcomes and vice versa. Your outcome evaluation depends on the accuracy with which you track your actual implementation. The content crosswalk...

Culturally responsive evaluation honors the cultural context in which an evaluation takes place by bringing needed, shared life experience and understandings to the evaluation tasks at hand. This worksheet provides a case study of one program evaluation effort attempting to...

A well developed data analysis plan will guide your efforts and ensure you remain on-track to analyze data and report findings according to your program's timeline. Use this worksheet to determine the elements that will go into your data analysis...

There are several components to effective data analysis, including determining what data you will collect, who will collect and enter data, how data will be shared, and what the final results of your data collection efforts will be. This worksheet walks you through the steps that will need to happen before the information you collect can be used, and...

One common question faced by program evaluators is what data collection tools or measures they will use, adapt, or develop to evaluate the process and outcomes of programming. Use this measurement decision tree to decide if and how...

When it comes to program evaluation, informed consent means a person is knowledgeable and understands what is being asked of them and why, they make the voluntary decision to participate, and they are actively engaged by the investigators during their participation...