Planning Your Program Evaluation

Here you will find several resources to help you think about the evaluation of your program and to develop the evaluation questions for your action plans.

Resources

Tips and Tools for Measuring Program Impacts (ppt)	The PowerPoint presentation OEIE presented at the 2011 Annual Conference breakout session Tips and Tools for Measuring Program Impact. This presentation covers tips and tools for preparing for a program evaluation, collecting and managing data to measure impact, and presenting program impacts.
Self-assessment questions for agents (doc)	A proposed checklist for preparing and checking your individual action plans, including your plans for evaluation.
Gathering evidence of impact (ppt)	A PowerPoint presentation developed by OEIE to provide an overview of the purposes and process of program evaluation.
Identifying evidence (doc)	A worksheet to help think about evidence and the types of data that can answer evaluation questions and demonstrate program outcomes.

Templates and Samples

Sample evaluation questions (doc)	Ideas for how to write overarching evaluation questions to assess program outcomes.
Samples of evidence (doc)	Provides examples of evidence and the types of data to answer evaluation questions and demonstrate program outcomes.