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TB Notes Newsletter
No. 4, 2007
New Tools Available to Help With Program Evaluation
On August 1, 2007, CDC evaluators Karen Debrot
and Betty Apt presented their Divisions’ new program evaluation
resources to the TB Evaluation Working Group. These tools are based
on the CDC Framework and can be used by virtually any public health
program with only minor adaptations.
Ms. Debrot, from the Division of Adolescent and
School Health, presented the on-line program evaluation resources
available to their contracted partners. She explained that their
goal was to pull together a specific set of the most accessible and
useful existing evaluation tools, and then develop additional tools
to meet their contracted partners’ requests. Their resources
include-
- Eleven
briefing sheets, which provide summaries of basic tasks, from developing logic
models to writing evaluation reports,
- Three
tutorials to teach basic program evaluation, logic modeling, and writing smart
objectives (a fourth tutorial on developing indicators will be added), and
- Links to
useful evaluation handbooks from other sources.
Program Evaluation Tools
Ms. Apt, who is with the Division of STD
Prevention, presented on the newly developed manual, “Practical Use
of Program Evaluation among Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)
Programs.” This manual includes-
- Sixteen tools that break down the six steps of the CDC
Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health into smaller
steps;
- Exercises and worksheets that can be copied or downloaded;
- Sample logic models and evaluation plans; and
- Case studies showing an evaluation of activities taken to
address increases of syphilis and chlamydia.
Hard copies of the manual have been sent to
colleagues in state STD programs.
As the speakers noted, because our evaluation
work is based on a common framework, it is easy to share tools and
resources across our programs. “We don’t have to reinvent the
wheel,” they noted. Both
E-mail Debrot
or
e-mail Apt
if you have any questions about their materials. If
you have any questions about how to adapt and use these tools in
your TB programs, please contact Maureen Wilce at
mwilce@cdc.gov.
—Submitted by
Maureen Wilce and Ann Tyree
Evaluation Work Group
Last Reviewed: 05/18/2008 Content Source: Division of Tuberculosis Elimination
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
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