Online Tools for Evaluating the Initiative
- American Evaluation Association
The American Evaluation Association, an international professional association, focuses on evaluation of many types and hosts topical interest groups (TIGs), including human services evaluation, health evaluation, international and cross-cultural evaluation. Also has an excellent list of links for evaluators. - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control site contains a multitude of evaluation sites, ranging from evaluation of HIV programs to employee performance. For a general program evaluation framework and links, see the CDC Evaluation Working Group. You can also find program-specific applications. Go to "Search" for best results and specify your area or "how to" evaluate. - Comprehensive Cancer Control Branch Program Evaluation Toolkit
Designed to help grantees plan and implement evaluations of their NCCCP-funded programs, this toolkit provides general guidance on evaluation principles and techniques, as well as practical templates and tools. The toolkit has five main sections: 1. Evaluation Primer (Introduces key evaluation concepts); 2. How to Evaluate Your CCC Program: (Walks users through the application of the CDC framework and includes a set of tools and templates that can be used to conduct evaluation activities); 3.Glossary; 4.For Further Study: (Presents a list of additional resources and selected training opportunities); 5.Toolkit Evaluation: (Explains how we will conduct future evaluations of this resource).
- County Health Rankings
Ranking the health of nearly every county in the nation, the County Health Rankings illustrate what we know when it comes to what’s making people sick or healthy. And the new County Health Roadmaps show what we can do to create healthier places to live, learn, work and play. The health of a community depends on many different factors – ranging from individual health behaviors, education and jobs, to quality of health care, to the environment. This collection of 50 reports – one per state – helps community leaders see that our environment influences how healthy we are and how long we live. - Crime Prevention
Canada's National Crime Prevention Council provides a checklist of approaches for evaluating community-based programs. - CYFERnet - Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network
USDA Children, Youth, and Families at Risk Initiative offers Evaluation resources (see Tools) in the form of abstracted and full-text research articles about specific initiatives. Many links to other sites as well. - Harvard Family Research Project
The Harvard Family Research Project publishes The Evaluation Exchange, which addresses current issues facing program evaluators of all levels. Archives are available online in Adobe Acrobat and HTML format. - Monitoring and Evaluation News
MandE NEWS is a news service based in the United Kingdom focusing on developments in monitoring and evaluation methods relevant to social development projects. Open forum postings can be viewed by category. - Prevention DSS
U.S. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention offers a registration-based online Decision Support System with evaluation component.
These E-mail discussion lists focusing on evaluation are linked through CataList, a catalog of lists.
- EVALTALK-request@BAMA.UA.EDU
The American Evaluation Association's official discussion list deals with all types of evaluation and has over 2,000 subscribers.
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