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Advocating for Adolescent Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa The publication provides information and tips for conducting a reproductive health advocacy effort in sub-Saharan Africa. The final chapter, Monitoring and Evaluating Advocacy Efforts, describes three types of evaluations an advocate may want to consider conducting: a process evaluation, an outcome evaluation, and an impact evaluation. The publication includes sample evaluation questions to ask as part of each evaluation. The chapter also includes a section about using evaluation results. Author: Shannon, Adam Type: Research & Reports Date: Jan 1, 1998 Be the first to review this resource! Download (476.47 KB) -
Banning Junk Food and Soda Sales in the State's Public Schools This report describes advocates' struggle in California to ban junk food and soda sales in public schools. The authors highlight successes, failures, and turning points of the effort, culminating in the 2005 Governor’s Summit on Health, Nutrition and Obesity. Author: Isaacs, Stephen and Swartz, Ava Type: Research & Reports Date: Oct 1, 2006 Be the first to review this resource! Download (325.71 KB) -
Community-Based Project Evaluation Guide This 76-page .pdf evaluation guide was originally created in 1997. It was updated in 2000. The guide is intended to help practitioners evaluate community-based programs with a focus on children, youth, and families. The guide explores the links between theory and research, goals and objectives, measures, variables, and program implementation. It includes examples of outcomes for children and youth issue areas, samples, and worksheets. Author: Callor, Suzanne et al. Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Dec 14, 2000 Be the first to review this resource! Download (235.68 KB) -
Creative Ways to Solicit Youth Input: A Hands-On Guide for Youth Practitioners To understand how our programs are doing, improve the quality of those programs and report to funders and other stakeholders, we collect information from a variety of sources: staff, parents, and the youth themselves. This manual provides ideas for other, creative ways to get input from youth.
Part One outlines a process you can use to plan your evaluation questions. Next, we present some key ideas to consider when implementing your evaluation, analyzing the results and reporting them.
Author: Public Profit Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: May 1, 2012
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Dabbling in the Data: A Hands-On Guide to Participatory Data Analysis Many quality improvement trainings either ignore data interpretations or offer limited guidance about how to dig into the data. This means that whoever speaks up first sets the agenda for the group—hardly a rigorous or fruitful process. Educators and children and youth professionals are increasingly interested in utilizing data to support continuous quality improvement, but few resources are available to help practitioners know what to do.Author: Public Profit Type: Research & Reports Date: Jan 1, 2014 Be the first to review this resource! Download (1.3 MB) -
GrantStation.com Online since 1999, GrantStation.com provides information and mentorship about the grantseeking process. Though most of their online resources are available only to paid subscribers, the "Tracks to Success" series offers free articles on a variety of fundraising and nonprofit management topics, including capital campaigns, endownment building, youth engagement, creating a development plan, and more. THey have also recently expanded, with an international edition of their newsletter, the GrantStation Insider. Author: GrantStation.com, Inc. Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Jan 1, 1999 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
How to Climb the R Learning Curve Without Falling Off the Cliff: Advice from Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced R Users R is hotter than ever in the evaluation field as evaluators are looking for ways to improve their data management, analysis, and visualizations. First-time R users are asking themselves, Is R right for my evaluation work? Where do I start if I want to learn R? How long will it take to learn R? Evaluators without programming experience are often frustrated by R's steep learning curve. These novice R users are left wondering, How can I climb the R learning curve without falling off the cliff?
Author: Tony Fujs, Will Fenn, Ann Emery Type: Tipsheets & Paper Tools Date: Oct 19, 2013 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Download (229.52 KB) -
Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center - Program Evaluation Briefing Series This Program Evaluation Briefing Series includes several documents:
Author: Justice Research and Statistics Association Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Dec 31, 2004 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Making Your Evaluation Inclusive: A Practical Guide for Evaluation Research with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people are included - but often invisible - in many evaluations. In light of increased federal attention at home and abroad to LGBT-specific data collection and the growing awareness of disparities faced by this population, evaluators must be prepared to consider how programs and policies affect LGBTQ people. Author: Efrain Gutierrez Type: Research & Reports Date: Nov 17, 2015 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Monitoring and Evaluating Advocacy Efforts: Learning from Successes and Challenges This chapter, part of a larger workbook for health advocacy issues, details three types of evaluation used to evaluate the achievements of advocacy efforts: process evaluation, outcome evaluation, and impact evaluation. Author: Advocates for Youth Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Jan 1, 1998 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
OUT OF SCHOOL TIME (OST) OBSERVATION INSTRUMENT The observation instrument provides site visitors at the out of school time program sites with a framework to capture and rate essential and observable indicators of positive youth development. The observation instrument includes the following:
Cover Sheet: a checklist for capturing basic facts about the observed activity, such as activity type, staff roles, number of participants, and grouping patterns.Author: Policy Studies Associates Type: Templates & Samples Date: Dec 1, 2005 Be the first to review this resource! Download (133.97 KB) -
Out-of-School Time Program Research and Evaluation Database This is a rich source for promising practices and evaluation reports on a huge variety of out-of-school programs. Author: Harvard Family Research Project Type: Websites & Online Tools Date: Aug 1, 2007 Point K Pick Be the first to review this resource! Web Link -
Report: "Ten Considerations for Advocacy Evaluation Planning: Lessons Learned from KIDS COUNT Grantee Experiences" The Annie E. Casey Foundation and Organizational Research Services, Inc. detail ten lessons learned from an evaluation of five KIDS COUNT grantees that began in 2007. The evaluation was designed to test some of the ideas presented in "A Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy", a report produced by AECF and ORS in 2006. Author: Organizational Research Services Type: Research & Reports Date: Jan 1, 2009 Be the first to review this resource! Download (289.93 KB) -
The Program Manager's Guide to Evaluation A guide from the U.S. Administration for Children and Families (ACF) that explains program evaluation -- what it is, how to understand it, and how to do it.
UPDATE: Point K used to include an earlier version of this resource, for which we had a broken link for some time. The current version (with corrected link) is a black-and-white PDF of the 2010 Second Edition.
Author: Administration for Children and Families Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Dec 8, 2010
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Use of Qualitative Interviews in Evaluation A guide in qualitative interviewing from Meg Sewell at the University of Arizona, Tucson and Children, Youth and Families Education Research Network (CYFERnet). Includes bibliography. Author: Sewell, Meg Type: Workbooks & Guides Date: Jun 1, 1998 Be the first to review this resource! Web Link