Evaluation Planning
Oftentimes planning gets overlooked, as people focus on the nitty gritty of data collection or analysis. Without giving enough to properly plan, resources may be over utilized or underutilized, the wrong outcomes might be assessed, unfeasible targets set, etc. It is critical to the success of your program or project that you spend enough time on this phase.
Evaluation Coaching & Training
What is it? Coaches have experience and expertise to support the learning and tasks of the people that need help.
Whether it’s coaching through developing evaluation plans, the grant writing process and nuances, or assisting you through your evaluation needs our consultants work with you where you are. We see coaching as a capacity building service. Our consultants work to empower you, the researcher, to feel more confident in your ability and skills.
How can we help you?
- Design research and methodologies
- Design evaluation plans
- Identify appropriate samples
- Develop or tailor assessments
- Test assessments for validity and reliability
- Administer assessments
- Facilitate focus groups or conduct interviews
- Primary data analysis — quantitative and qualitative
- Secondary data analysis
- Develop reports
- Present results with recommendations
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If future reporting is easy and quicker due to development of standardized data processing and presentation elements.
It can depend on the specific project, but typically focus groups are best composed by homogenous groups, or groups of people who share common attributes. The commonalities shared by a group should be determined by the evaluation goals, the topics being explored, and the cultural context of the evaluation.
Semi-structured interviewing is the most common type, which includes an interview guide with pre-determined open-ended questions, but also the flexibility of allowing spontaenuous follow-up questions and probing to yield in-depth data.
No, not all surveys need to be written in Likert format. The advantage, however, is being able to quantify change. If you are assessing outcome change, Likert scale options are a great way to be able to show a demonstrated change, if any, between two time periods.
Survey length is dependent on the purpose and, ultimately, the audience. Ideally, surveys should take no longer than 15 minutes for respondents to complete.
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