Evaluation Tools

Evaluation includes everything you might do to monitor the progress and the impact of the work that you do.  While there are many ways to design and carry out evaluation, you should choose the techniques that will be easy to do with the resources that you have, and will give you information that you can use to guide and strengthen your work. 

To see an example of the evaluation of the Regional Center's work, click here. 

Evaluation resources developed by the RCHC:

• Social Marketing Evaluation: A Step-By-Step Planning Guide - This guide offers worksheets that will help you develop an evaluation for a social marketing campaign.  Download the Guide and Appendices here.
• Evaluation Planning Process - This document descibes a process that will help groups plan an evaluation for a project.  Download it by clicking here.

Evaluation resources available in our library:

• The ABCs of evaluation : timeless techniques for program and project managers, 2005 (Book)
• Concept mapping for planning and evaluation, 2007 (Book)
• "Sticky Wall": a large piece of nylon sprayed with 3M adhesive.  A great tool for leading a group in planning, brainstorming or developing a logic model. 
• Evaluation primer : setting the context for a drug-free communities coalition evaluation, 2005 (Book)

Evaluation resources on the web:

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers a free guidebook on program evaluation in public health.  To download a PDF of the guidebook, see: http://www.cdc.gov/eval/evalguide.pdf

• The National Community Anti-Drug Coalition Institute has many resources, including a free downloadable primer on evaluation.  See: http://www.coalitioninstitute.org/Evaluation-Research/EvaluationPrimer-07-2007.pdf

• The Kansas University Community Tool Box (ctb.ku.edu) has many free resources  and guides for community organizing.  See their evaluation resources at: http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/index.htm#partJ

• RAND's guide, Getting to Outcomes, has a chapter devoted to evaluation. To download the free guide, see: http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR101/

• The Kellogg Foundation has a free guide on logic models, with a chapter that shows how to use your logic model to plan your evaluation.  See: http://www.wkkf.org/Pubs/Tools/Evaluation/Pub3669.pdf
   

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