Evaluation Designs
An evaluation design where one measure is taken just prior to the intervention, and one measure is taken upon the intervention's completion.
What is Pre-Post Design?
Type of evaluation that examines the procedures and tasks involved in delivering a program, with a goal of improving the program.
What is Process Evaluation?
The money, items, people and in-kind contributions that the program uses to operate.
What are Inputs?
A planned discussion with a small group of people guided by a skilled facilitator.
What is a Focus Group?
This is a diagram depicting the relationship between a program's activities and its outcomes. It is a useful tool in program planning and program evaluation.
What is a Logic Model?
A group of targets that do not receive the program intervention, usually compared to a group who does receive the intervention.
What are Control Groups?
Type of evaluation that assesses the impact or success of a program or intervention.
What is Outcome or Summative Evaluation?
These are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound.
What are SMART Goals?
Using a combination of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in order to corroborate and complement findings.
What is mixed methods evaluation?
These are all the people who have an interest in a program or evaluation. It may include program participants, funders, administrators, community residents, and more.
What are Stakeholders?
An impact evaluation design using a control group and an intervention group, and where group are randomly assigned.
What is an Experimental Design
A process that determines priorities, needs, and gaps of a community or program. This is often done prior to an evaluation.
What is a Needs Assessment?
A method where every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected to participate in a program, study, or survey.
What is Random Sampling?
A 5-7 point measure allowing individuals to express how they feel about something.
What is a Likert Scale?
A flawed survey question made up of two or more questions, e.g. Is this game fun and educational?
What is a Double-Barreled Question?
An impact research design where intervention and comparison groups are formed by a process other than random assignment.
What is a Quasi-Experimental Design?
Evaluation in which all partners (staff, participants, and evaluators) are involved in the design and implementation.
What is Participatory or Empowerment Evaluation?
The mid-point in a data set.
What is Median?
Qualitative Evaluation Methods are most appropriate for this type of Evaluation.
What is Formative or Process Evaluation?
A report published by Congress in 1978, in response to the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. It outlines the ethics required in research and evaluation - including justice, respect, and beneficience.
What is the Belmont Report?
An evaluation that relies on a number of repeated measurements taken before, during and after an intervention.
What is a Time Series Design?
Type of evaluation that requires the evaluator to become part of the program's design and management team. This is most often used in complex and unpredictable environments
What is Developmental Evaluation?
Short, intermediate and long-term changes in attitude, beliefs, behavior, or status as a result of the program or intervention.
What are Outcomes?
This convenience sampling technique could be useful in a qualitative study when you are having trouble accessing your population of interest because they are isolated, hard to reach, and suspicious of outsiders.
What is Snow-ball sampling?
The degree to which an instrument or scale used in an evaluation accurately measures what you want it to measure.
What is Validity?