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evaluation or assistance in conducting an evaluation project.
Resources are divided into the following groups:
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Reports and Publications: General |
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Document |
Developer |
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A Consumer's
Guide to Taking Charge of Health Information |
Health Insight |
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Achieving
and Measuring Community Outcomes: Challenges, Issues, Some Approaches |
United Way |
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Achieving the
Oregon Shines Vision: 1999 Benchmark Performance Report |
Oregon Progress Board |
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Action Research Electronic Reader |
Ian Hughes |
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Administrative Data for Policy-Relevant Research |
Joint Center for Policy Research |
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An
Ounce of Prevention: What are the Returns? |
CDC |
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Analyzing
Quantitative Data |
Univ. of Wisconsin Cooperative
Extension |
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Annotated
International Program Evaluation Bibliography |
International and Cross-Cultural
Evaluation TIG |
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Assessing
Fundamental Science |
National Science Foundation |
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Baldridge
Criteria for Performance Excellence: Criteria for Healthcare
Organizations |
National Institute for Standards and
Technology |
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Bibliography: Participatory Evaluation |
UN, Office of Evaluation and Strategic Planning |
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Building a Successful
Prevention Program |
Western Center for the Application of
Prevention Technologies |
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Case Study Evaluations |
Government Accounting Office |
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Client Satisfaction
Surveying: Common Measurements Tool (see Recent Publications
section) |
Canadian Centre for Management
Development |
Client Satisfaction
Surveying: A Manager's Guide
(see Recent Publications section) |
Canadian Centre for Management
Development |
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Collecting
Evaluation Data: Surveys |
Univ. of Wisconsin Cooperative
Extension |
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Collaborative Initiatives: An Outcome Evaluation Resource Manual |
Univ. of Minnesota |
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Collecting
Evaluation Data: Overview of Sources and Methods |
Univ. of Wisconsin Cooperative
Extension |
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Collecting
Evaluation Data: Direct Observation |
Univ. of Wisconsin Cooperative
Extension |
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Common Purpose:
Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America |
Lisbeth B. Schorr |
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Community Group
Member Survey: Using the Results |
Univ. of Wisconsin Cooperative
Extension |
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Community Level
Indicators for Understanding Health and Human Services Issues |
DHHS |
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Community
Status Reports and Targeted Community Interventions: Drawing a
Distinction |
United Way |
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Comprehensive Community Initiatives: A New Generation of Urban
Revitalization Strategies |
Kristina Smock |
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Content Analysis |
Government Accounting Office |
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Contracting for
Evaluations (including the Evaluation Contracts Checklist) |
Daniel L. Stufflebeam |
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Designing Evaluations |
Government Accounting Office |
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Electronic Resources for
Evaluators |
Catherine Callow Elwell |
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Essentials of Survey
Research and Analysis |
Ronald Jay Polland |
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Evaluating Comprehensive Community Change |
Anne E. Casey Foundation |
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Evaluating
Collaboratives: Reaching the Potential |
Univ. of Wisconsin Cooperative
Extension |
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Evaluating
the Impact of Development Projects on Poverty A Handbook for
Practitioners |
World Bank |
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Evaluation
Activities in Organizations |
Free Management Library |
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Evaluation Checklist
Project |
Western Michigan Univ |
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Evaluation Contracts Checklist |
Daniel L. Stufflebeam |
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Evaluation
Funnel |
Seth Aldrich |
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Evaluation Plans and Operations Checklist |
Daniel L. Stufflebeam |
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Evaluation in Foundations: The Unrealized Potential |
W.K. Kellogg Foundation |
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Evaluation
Resources |
Nonprofit Resource Center, U of Richmond |
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Evaluation Values and Criteria Checklist |
Daniel L. Stufflebeam |
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A Framework for Building Capacity to Improve Health |
NSW Health |
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Finding
Transformative Themes Across Multiple System Change Evaluations: A Work
in Progress |
Beverly A. Parsons |
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Forty
Developmental Assets |
Search Institute |
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Getting
Better All the Time |
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Auditor General of Western Australia |
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Getting
Smart, Getting Real: Using Research and Evaluation Information to
Improve Programs and Policies |
Anne E. Casey Foundation |
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Glossary of Evaluation
Terms |
Western Michigan University |
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Guidelines for Developing Evaluation Checklists |
Daniel L. Stufflebeam |
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Guidelines for
Legislative Language for State Program Evaluation |
David A. Dowell |
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Health Promotion
Evaluation: Recommendations to Policy-Makers |
WHO European Working Group on Health
Promotion Evaluation |
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Indicators to Help with Capacity Building in Health Promotion |
NSW Health |
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Internet
Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment |
Evaluation Resources Information Center |
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Introduction to Customer
Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Value |
Customer Value, Inc. |
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Introduction to
Results Mapping |
Results Mapping Laboratory |
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Investing
in Results: Outcome Measurement Resource Network |
United Way |
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Journey
Mapping |
Barry Kibel |
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Key Evaluation
Checklist |
Michael Scriven |
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Learning What Works:
Evaluating Complex Social Interventions |
Brookings Institution and Harvard
Univ |
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Leadership in Public
Health: Five Critical Areas for the 21st Century |
William L. Roper |
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Lessons
Learned from the History of Social Indicators |
Redefining Progress |
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Making
Social Indicators Useful for Policy and Program Management in New York
State |
Cornell Univ. |
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Measures for
Community Research |
Aspen Institute |
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Measuring Community
Empowerment |
Phil Bartle |
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Measuring Health Objectives and
Indicators--Performance Improvement Reports and Resources |
Public Health Foundation |
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Minnesota
Milestones 1998: Measures that Matter |
Minnesota Planning |
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New Approaches
to Evaluating Community Initiatives, Vol 1: Concepts, Methods, and
Contexts |
Aspen Institute |
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New Approaches
to Evaluating Community Initiatives, Vol 2: Theory, Measurement, and
Analysis |
Aspen Institute |
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Online
Resource Library |
United Way |
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Outcome
Measurement: Showing Results in the Non-profit Sector |
United Way |
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Performance Contracting: Lessons from Performance Contracting Case
Studies A Framework for Public Sector Performance Contracting |
Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development |
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Planning and
Constructing Performance-based Evaluations |
Joseph S. Wholey and John A.
McLaughlin |
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Post-then-Pre
Evaluation |
S. Kay Rockwell and Harriet Kohn |
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Practical
Evaluation for Public Managers: Getting the Information You Need |
DHHS |
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Principles of Community
Engagement |
CDC |
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Program Development Model |
Univ. of Wisconsin Cooperative
Extension |
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Program Evaluation in
the Nonprofit Sector |
InnoNet |
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Program Metaevaluation Checklist |
Daniel L. Stufflebeam |
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Progress and
Promise: Shaping Long-term Social Change Through Evaluation and
Professional Development |
Beverly A. Parsons |
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Prospective Evaluation
Synthesis |
Government Accounting Office |
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Quantitative Data
Analysis |
Government Accounting Office |
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Questionnaire
Design: Asking Questions with a Purpose |
Univ. of Wisconsin Cooperative
Extension |
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Review of Government
Service Provision and Reform |
Productivity Commission, Australia |
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Resources
for Community-Level Initiatives |
United Way |
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Resources for Methods in
Evaluation and Social Research |
Gene Shackman |
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Sampling
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Univ. of Wisconsin Cooperative
Extension |
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Success Stories
as Hard Data: Abridged Edition |
Barry Kibel |
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Targeting Outcomes of
Programs |
Kay Rockwell and Claude Bennett,
University of Nebraska--Lincoln |
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Together We Can: A Guide for Crafting a Profamily System of Education
and Human Services |
DOEd and DHHS |
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USAID Evaluation
Publications |
USAID |
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Using a Systems
Change Approach to Building Healthy Communities |
InSites |
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Using
Research and Evaluation Information to Improve Programs and Policies |
Anne E. Casey Foundation |
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Using
Software Systems to Measure Nonprofit Program Outcomes |
Michael Collins |
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Using Structured
Interviewing Techniques |
Government Accounting Office |
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What Is Participatory Action Research? |
Yoland Wasdsworth |
