Getting off to a Good Start with Your Evaluation
| Autor: | Frances D. Butterfoss, Ellen M. Capwell, Vincent T. Francisco |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Program evaluation
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| Zdroj: | Health Promotion Practice. 1:126-131 |
| ISSN: | 1552-6372 1524-8399 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/152483990000100208 |
| Popis: | Creating an evaluation plan may be one of the most important endeavors you undertake in developing and sustaining your initiative. Given all the hours, days, and months (even years!) that you put into establishing your initiative, answering key questions that are generated by folks interested in your work is critical. Most of these questions will be of the kind that can be answered by some level of evaluation. In some cases, you may have the resources to hire an outside evaluation team. However, in the majority of programs, resources are scarce and the evaluation needs to be simple, straightforward, and embedded in the ongoing work of the current staff. Creative thinking, planning, and implementation will keep your staff from being overworked with inefficient procedures and inaccessible data. In keeping with a number of major movements in research and evaluation practice (Argyris, Putnam, & Smith, 1990; Fetterman, 1996; Green & Kreuter, 1991), this article outlines a way to approach the development and implementation of a functional program evaluation. Excellent information is available on approaches to evaluation, evaluation tools, and research methodologies (e.g., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 1999; Fawcett et al., 1993, 1995; Linney & Wandersman, 1991). In fact, so much information exists that one could easily just toss one’s hands in the air, buy an evaluation handbook, and |
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