Links to external evaluation resources

Introduction to the Evaluation of Learning Technology
An article by Martin Oliver that appeared in Educational Technology and Society that discusses the complexities of evaluating new learning technologies.

Program Evaluation Tip Sheets
This site within the Penn State University College of Agricultural Sciences Cooperative Extention and Outreach has been referred to by social scientists within the WGLN as the “Modular Content Archive” for evaluation. Over 60 useful tip sheets can be found here on topics ranging from “Creating Questions” to “Reporting Results”.

Program Development and Evaluation Resources
This page within the University of Wisconsin-Extension contains 26 tip sheets that are between two and four pages each covering topics of planning your evaluation, collecting data, analyzing information, communicating results, and improving your evaluation quality.

An Overview of Using a Logic Model Map in Your Evaluation
University of Wisconsin-Extension uses the logic model approach to depict project action as part of the project development process. A logic model describes what your project is and it will do – including the sequence of events that links project investments to results. This page describes the basic steps in a logic model that you can adapt to your own project.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook
This handbook provides a framework for thinking about evaluation as a relevant and useful tool.

A Basic Guide to Program Evaluation
This document provides guidance toward planning and implementing an evaluation process.

The Evaluation Cookbook
Available in HTML or as a PDF
A practical guide to evaluation for lecturers.

The Evaluation Exchange
This is an excellent short periodical from the Harvard University Family Research Project that addresses current issues of evaluation at all levels. Free subscriptions are available.

Why Should You Evaluate?
Reasons, and support links, for why one should evaluate a program, class, project, or initiative. This is good resource when dealing with groups that are reluctant incorporate evaluation into a project.

The Virtue of Specificity in Theory of Change Evaluation: Practitioner Reflections
A very nice article that addresses, with a bit of humor, the virtues of specificity in evaluation planning.

62 Good Reasons to Avoid Evaluation (Humor)
To make life easier for overworked project directors, here are some of the more original responses to evaluation propositions, collected by a person in the United Nations System.