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CDC Framework for Program Evaluation. This framework guides public health professionals in program evaluation. It is a practical, non-prescriptive tool designed to summarize and organize essential elements of program evaluation. The framework includes steps in program evaluation practice and standards for effective program evaluation. The steps and standards of this framework will provide an understanding of each program's context and improve how program evaluations are conceived and conducted.
CDC Evaluation Working Group links to various versions of the CDC Evaluation Framework; basic background information on program evaluation; and links to hundreds of manuals, tools, and resources from other organizations.
Introduction to Program Evaluation for Public Health Programs: A Self-Study Guide. Written in user-friendly language and suitable for both evaluators and program staff, the guide is organized around the six steps of the CDC Evaluation Framework. It includes cross-cutting case examples, helpful graphics, and worksheets for each step.
Introduction to Program Evaluation for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs. This document is a how-to guide for planning and implementing evaluation activities. The manual reflects the priorities of CDC's Office on Smoking and Health for program monitoring and evaluation. The purpose of this manual is to assist state tobacco control program managers and staff in the planning, design, implementation, and use of practical and increasingly comprehensive evaluations of tobacco control efforts.
Physical Activity Evaluation Handbook. This resource from CDC's Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity outlines the six basic steps of program evaluation and illustrates each step with physical activity program examples. Appendices provide information about physical activity indicators, practical case studies, and additional evaluation resources.
Winter 2008 [pdf 435K]: This newsletter describes finding data sources for program evaluation.
Fall 2008 [pdf 591K]: This newsletter describes how to develop strategies for program success.
Fall 2007 [pdf 660K]: This previously published newsletter describes how evaluation technical assistance can be your compass.
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These tutorials build your skills so that you can better describe, plan, evaluate, and improve your program. The tutorials contain interactive exercises, review pages, and downloadable resources and examples.
Logic Models 1: The Basics. Provides information for planning and developing a logic model to describe a program and guide program evaluation.
Logic Models 2: Constructing a Logic Model. Provides information on how to develop, revise, and maintain a logic model.
Writing Good Goals and SMART Objectives. Provides information on formulating goals and SMART objectives to plan and describe programs.
The purpose of the Program Inventories is to provide a snapshot of what DASH funded partners are doing in HIV Prevention, CSHP/PANT, and Asthma Management. Funded partners that are receiving DASH funds under the 801 cooperative agreement under these priorities are required to complete a Program Inventory in the 1st and 5th years of their cooperative agreement, and are encouraged to complete a Program Inventory in the 2nd or 3rd year as well.
Strategic Planning Kit This kit was developed to provide guidance to DASH Funded Partners on strategic planning. Funded partners receiving DASH funds under the 801 cooperative agreement for HIV Prevention, CSHP/PANT, and Asthma Management are required to complete a Strategic Plan in the first six months of their cooperative agreement.
Professional Development Partnership: Training Tracker* [login required]. This PC-based database program was developed for use by DASH Funded Partners as a tracking system for health education training events. A manual is also available.
SMART Palm Cards [pdf 245K, HTML] This previously published set of palm-sized cards describes SMART objectives.
Good Goals Palm Cards [pdf 465K] This previously published set of palm-sized cards describes the criteria for writing good goals.
Strategic Planning Palm Cards [pdf 1.4M] This previously published set of palm-sized cards describes the six Strategic Planning steps.
Basic Guide to Program Evaluation* This document provides guidance for planning and implementing an evaluation of for-profit or nonprofit programs—many kinds of evaluations can be applied to programs, for example, goals-based, process-based, and outcomes-based.
Children, Youth, and Families Education and Research Network* CYFERnet's Evaluation section includes practical tools useful for evaluating community-based programs; information on how community programs can be sustained; and assessments of organizational support for work in the areas of children, youth, and families. The site provides links to downloadable evaluation guides by topic, for example, logic modeling.
Evaluation Toolkit* [pdf 1.3Mb]. This publication by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation provides access to user-friendly evaluation and logic model development handbooks.
Michigan Toolkit for Title IV Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Programs. The State of Michigan Department of Community Health, Office of Drug Control Policy, provides a basic evaluation toolkit. The focus is on alcohol, tobacco, other drugs (ATOD) and violence, but the toolkit is general enough to apply to other topics. Links to validated ATOD and violence surveys are available and include a description and appropriate use of each survey.
Pennsylvania State University, College of Agricultural Sciences Cooperative Extension and Outreach* This site provides information to design and implement a useful program evaluation to improve a program, compare delivery methods, respond to stakeholders, advocate, and prepare for program promotion. The site contains tip sheets focusing on logic modeling basics, creating questionnaires, developing objectives, sampling, and design of evaluations.
Program Development and Evaluation* The Program Development and Evaluation Unit of the University of Wisconsin’s Extension Program provides training and technical assistance that enables Cooperative Extension campus and community-based faculty and staff to plan, implement and evaluate high quality educational programs. In addition to a basic evaluation handbook, the evaluation publications include a variety of topics, such as logic modeling, data collection, and questionnaire design.
Understanding Evaluation: The Way to Better Prevention Programs [pdf 260K]. This handbook describes a variety of evaluation activities so that school districts and community agencies can tailor evaluations to their local program objectives and needs.
The Handbook for Evaluating HIV Education. Nine booklets are included in the Handbook for Evaluating HIV Education from CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health. These booklets address evaluation of HIV policy, HIV curricula, HIV staff development programs, and HIV-related student outcomes. They can be used to help assess the quality of HIV education programs at the state and local levels.
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