Evaluation Types
Assesses the extent to which the program achieved its outcomes or impacts.
What is an outcome evaluation?
An illustrative way of showing program inputs, activities, outputs, and outcome, usually in a linear fashion.
What is a logic model?
A list of questions aimed for extracting specific data from a particular group of people. May be conducted by phone, mail, via the internet, and also in person.
What is a survey?
A written document that describes how you will evaluate an initiative, as well as how you intend to use the results.
What is an evaluation plan?
Describes what happens in a program to help understand why it produced the results it did.
What is a process evaluation?
A way of explaining how and why a desired change is expected to come about. Unlike a logic model, there is no standard structure.
What is a theory of change?
A conversation where questions are asked to elicit information.
What is an interview?
Individuals or organizations that will be affected in some significant way by the outcome of the evaluation process or that are affected by the performance of the initiative, or both.
What are stakeholders?
Addresses the overall monetary value of the intervention taking into account the costs incurred. This can include cost-benefit analysis, social return on investment (SROI), etc.
What is a value for money evaluation?
Change that happens as a result of the activities and outputs.
What is an outcome?
A group of people assembled to participate in a guided discussion about a particular topic
What is a focus group?
An evaluation approach based on the principle that an evaluation should be judged on its usefulness to its intended users.
What is utilization-focused evaluation?
Assesses the extent to which an intervention can be evaluated reliably and credibly.
What is an evaluability assessment?
The products of activities. Can usually be counted.
What are outputs?
A process in which people use images to capture aspects of their environment and experiences and share them with others.
What is photovoice?
An event where stakeholders come together in order to collectively review, analyze, and interpret data that has been collected.
What is a data party?
Identifies and prioritizes the needs that a project, program, or policy will seek to meet.
What is a needs assessment?
Resources - both material (e.g., funding, equipment) and intangible (e.g., people, time).
What are inputs?
Something specific, observable, and measurable that shows progress toward an outcome.
What is an indicator?
Critical thinking applied in the context of evaluation.
What is evaluative thinking?