Evaluation Design
Evaluation design is the structure that allows you to collect and analyze the data needed to answer your evaluation questions. It is important that the evaluation design align with your logic model, goals, research questions, available resources, and (funder) requirements.
Evaluation Plans
What is it? An evaluation plan is the framework that guides data collection. If done well, it aligns to the overall program goal, evaluation goal, and the logic model itself. Ideally, it would be developed in the planning stages of a program so that it could be incorporated into setting target outcomes. Elements of the evaluation plan include the outcomes or outputs that it will assess, the indicators and targets for these outcomes, the assessment measures (how the outputs or outcomes will be measured), the timeframe in which the measures will be implemented, and who is responsible for collecting the data. Our consultants can help you create a solid evaluation plan that will align with your goals, questions, logic model, and consider your analysis goals.
How can we help you?
- Include formative, summative, process, outcome, or impact in the design, depending on what is needed
- Help determine the evaluation questions
- Align evaluation plan with your logic model
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The process is similar to how research analysis would be conducted, in that an evaluation and coordinating analysis plan would be developed early on in project planning, both tied to key analysis questions that drive the methods used.
If future reporting is easy and quicker due to development of standardized data processing and presentation elements.
Document review can provide important background information for an evaluation, and it can bring to light considerations or issues around a project that may not be possible through other means of data collection. Document review is also typically unobtrusive since it does not require collecting data from participants, and it can be relatively inexpensive.
Data from document review can be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, disorganized, or irrelevant, therefore, it can also be time consuming to compile, organize, and analyze a large volume of documents.
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.
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