EVALUATION (PROVING THAT CHANGE OR IMPROVEMENT OCCURRED AND THAT YOUR
PROJECT MET ITS GOALS)
Evaluations measure change or progress between conditions before you
carried out your project and conditions after you carried out your project. Decide
how much change is necessary to make your project a success. You will need to
develop indicators: bench marks or standards by which to measure the success or failure of
each objective in your proposal.
In the evaluation, you reaffirm the importance of your objectives and their connection to
the values of the grantor.Ask yourself these questions when
you conduct an evaluation:
- Am I answering the questions that are
important to my stakeholders?
- Am I choosing the right design (procedures
and methods) for my evaluation?
- Should I evaluate during the project, or
after?
- Did I get the information I need to complete
an evaluation?
- Are my results clear and understandable?
To plan your evaluation:
- Identify what you are going to evaluate.
Progress or Impact?
- Decide the methods you will use for
evaluation. Quantitative, Qualitative, or Mixed?
- Summarize and report your findings.
Pick a design that will best answer the questions your grantor will
want to know about:
Formative: tests the project
while it is still going on and can be changed in mid-course. The cook tastes the soup
while it is cooking.
Summative: measures the effects
of the project after it is finished. The dinner guests give their opinion to the cook
after eating the soup.
Show an example of your evaluation instrument (questionnaire,
experiment, face to face or telephone interviews, etc. in your report.
Include at least one example of typical evaluation data (how the results of your tests for
effectiveness will look).
Include a budget of your evaluation (postage, phone, FAX, travel, paper, special computer
programs, etc.).
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