Tools for Establishing Purpose and Scope
The CDC's Developing an Effective Evaluation Plan: Setting the Course for Effective Program Evaluation is a comprehensive manual with multiple useful tools. The Community Tool Box from the Center for Community Health & Development at the University of Kansas identified four main steps to develop an evaluation plan:
1. Clarify program objectives and goals. 2. Develop evaluation questions. 3. Develop evaluation methods. 4. Set up a timeline for evaluation activities.
This How to Develop an Evaluation Plan Power Point from the Tool Box walks through each of these four steps.
References : BetterEvaluation (2013). Frame the boundaries for an evaluation. Retrieved from: https://www.betterevaluation.org/sites/default/files/Frame%20-%20Compact.pdf
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2018). CDC program evaluation framework checklist for step 3: Focus the evaluation. Retrieved from: https://www.cdc.gov/eval/steps/step3/Step-3-Checklist-Final.pdf
Patton, M. Q. (2013). Utilization-focused evaluation (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
University of Kansas Center for Community Health and Development (nd). Community tool box. Retrieved from: https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/evaluate/evaluation/evaluation-plan/main
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Asset Mapping, Needs Assessment and Stakeholder Analysis When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive. — Dr. Ruth Simmons, President, Prairie View A&M University
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