Beginner guides - pamphlets
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These are
basic guide handouts
designed as introduction to evaluation for those without technical backgrounds. The series is:
What is program evaluation: A beginners guide
These handouts each focus on one particular question or issue of program evaluation.
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/Evaluationbeginnersguide_WhatIsEvaluation.pdf
This one focuses on: What is program evaluation.
6/9/09, revised 11/15/09
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/
Evaluationbeginnersguide_evaluationquestion.pdf
This one focuses on: What are the evaluation questions. Using logic models to find the questions for the evaluation.
6/10/09
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/Evaluationbeginnersguide_methodsoverview.pdf
This one focuses on: What are the methods of evaluation, briefly listing the methods.
6/10/09
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/Evaluationbeginnersguide_surveys.pdf
This one focuses on: surveys. 6/10/09
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/Evaluationbeginnersguide_qual.pdf
This one focuses on: observation, interviews, focus groups. 6/10/09
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/Evaluationbeginnersguide_cause.pdf
This one focuses on: cause, how to determine whether a program caused it's intended
outcome. 6/10/09. Revised 12/31/09
These each focus on specific challenges to evaluation
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/Evaluationbeginnersguide_challenge1.pdf
This one focuses on one of the major challanges in evaluation: getting an answer to the question about whether the program has an effect. 10/17/09
. Revised 11/12/09 and again in 12/31/09
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/Evaluationbeginnersguide_challenge2.pdf
This one focuses on another major challange in evaluation: whether the evaluation results are useful to people involved in the program. 10/18/09.
Revised 11/12/09
This version includes ideas about the entire evaluation process, all in one handout.
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/evaluationbeginnersguide.pdf
What is evaluation, methods design, questions.
5/4/09, revised 2/12/10
These guides are also here
My M&E:
http://www.mymande.org/content/what-evaluation-beginners-guide
http://www.mymande.org/content/what-evaluation-beginners-guide-what-evaluation-question
http://www.mymande.org/content/what-evaluation-beginners-guide-methods
Design, Monitoring and Evaluation for Peacebuilding
http://dmeforpeace.org/learn/what-program-evaluation-beginners-guide
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