Connecting concepts and practice: 23 guides
Practical evaluation guides
Plan an evaluation, collect data, and interpret findings.
Explore concrete examples and the reasons for judgments, then adapt them to your own setting.
4 guides
Think through the pathway to results
Organize the links between activities and results, and describe the change the program seeks.
5 guides
Build the questions and evaluation plan
Decide what needs to be established, then connect questions, indicators, and collection methods.
How to develop evaluation questions
Make the questions the evaluation should answer specific.
How to develop evaluation indicators
Choose indicators for examining changes in outcomes.
How to write an evaluation plan
Bring questions, indicators, research, and roles together in an evaluation plan.
From evaluation questions to a data collection plan
Connect evaluation questions to the data needed and the collection plan.
The 6 OECD-DAC criteria
Choose perspectives for examining your program from the six evaluation criteria.
6 guides
Record implementation and collect data
Keep manageable records in practice and examine change and its reasons.
Monitoring and evaluation
Clarify the roles of ongoing monitoring and evaluation.
Baseline survey
Record baseline and endline conditions in a comparable form.
How to design an evaluation questionnaire
Turn what you need to ask into questions people can answer.
How to conduct evaluation interviews
Prepare questions that explore experiences and the reasons for change.
What is process evaluation?
Check how the program was implemented.
Evaluation ethics basics
Consider explanations to participants, consent, and the handling of personal information.
4 guides
Interpret findings and inform decisions
Read evidence from several sources alongside its limitations, and organize it for the next decision.
What are mixed methods?
Interpret numbers and accounts together.
What is impact evaluation?
Examine program-related change through comparison and causality.
How to write an evaluation report
Explain findings and limitations so readers can make their own judgments.
From evaluation findings to the next decision
Use evaluation findings in the next improvement or decision.
4 guides
Start from your program setting
Adapt the ideas to your setting, such as training, government, nonprofits, or grant-funded programs.
Training effectiveness measurement
Check learning after training and its use in practice.
Evaluation methods for EBPM
Select evidence and methods to fit the policy question.
What is SROI?
Understand the approach and limits of monetizing social value.
Evaluating nonprofit and grant-funded programs
Build learning and accountability into the evaluation plan.
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Change history
- — Changed the index to an illustrated handbook layout, grouping the headings and illustrations into five chapters and arranging 23 guides for easier reading.
- — Added two guides connecting questions to collection plans and findings to the next decision.
- — Added “What is an outcome?” to bring the collection to 21 guides. Updated titles and introductions for the guides on outputs and outcomes, evaluation indicators, and training evaluation.
- — Updated references, fictional examples, and links to next tasks in 20 guides.