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Measuring Success: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives

  

Tools & Checklists

 Contributed by Aimee Whitman and Eric Wadud Edited by Bill Berkowitz and Jerry Schultz

Checklist

Here, you'll find checklists that summarize the major points contained in the text.


___You understand that evaluating means determining the value of your work.

___You understand the fears of evaluation:

1. "I don't know how to do an evaluation."
2. "I don't have time."
3. "The results may be negative or hurt us."


You know why you should evaluate your program:

___Success is reinforcing.

___Failure is instructive.

___Evaluation can make you feel good.

___Evaluation raises the chances of further action.

___Evaluation can help you understand important aspects of the initiative.

___You should evaluate your initiative when your plan is in action, or when some of your plans have been completed.


You understand how to do an evaluation:

___You want to evaluate.

___You have evaluated in terms of objectives or goals.

___You have identified criteria or indicators that will provide ways to measure your objectives.

___You have collected data on each of these indicators.

___You have used the results to adjust the program or intervention as necessary.