| by Jen Grotpeter Once you have used the chart, "Choosing an
Evaluation Design for Your Program," (see page 2) to
determine which evaluation design is most suitable to use for your program, the next step
is to make a plan to implement that evaluation design. What follows is a brief overview of
frequently-used evaluation designs. Future editions of this newsletter will discuss these
designs in much greater detail, but this overview was developed to answer some basic
questions by describing each design type. |
Level One
Process Evaluation
This type of evaluation is designed to
collect data that will track what was proposed versus what was accomplished. You will want
to keep track of how many clients you served, and also of demographic characteristics of
those clients. For example, if you proposed to serve 50 adolescents, and one goal of your
program was to address the needs of typically-underserved Latino youth, you would want to
keep track of how many clients you served, and of the ages
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