How to evaluate
To summarise
- Ensure evaluation is integral to the development of an
initiative, not planned retrospectively
- Budget for your evaluation, taking into account
- who will collect the data?
- Who will analyse and process it?
- How will it be reported?
- Ensure your evaluation strategy fits your organisation's
quality framework (think about how you will disseminate your
findings)
- Involve all relevant stakeholders in the development,
assessment and review of the evaluation
- Develop a timetable to audit and review the evaluation tools
and processes
- Develop ways to share best practice
- Think about the style of the evaluation report, who you are
writing it for and how they will use it
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Develop clear aims and
objectives
Identify
data types and sources
Plan data
collection methods
Think
about outcomes
The
evaluation report
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