Evaluation
American Evaluation Association
The American Evaluation Association is an international professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation.
An Evaluation Framework for Community Health Programs
United States document written by the Centre for the Advancement of Community Based Public Health, June 2000.
Building Healthy Communities : More on Evaluation
A step-by-step guide to evaluating your project provided by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aging.
Bureau of Justice Assistance: Centre for program evaluation
A general guide providing useful resources for planning and implementing program evaluations and for developing program performance measures provided by the United States Department of Justice.
Equity and the economic evaluation of healthcare
United Kingdom Report: Equity and the economic evaluation of healthcare.
Evaluation: A guide for good practice
Mental Health Publication. This booklet is a practical guide to designing and implementing evaluation for a wide range of promotion and prevention initiatives. It outlines how people can work with each other their stakeholders, clients and community to develop relevant affordable and achievable evaluations for their initiatives and demonstrates how these evaluation processes can become part of day-to-day practice.
Evaluation Tool Kit Series
Evaluation Data Development has produced a series of publications entitled Evaluation Tool Kit. The toolkit aims to build evaluation capacity and knowledge by providing pertinent information to design, plan and conduct an evaluation.
InfoBytes: Evaluation On-line Resources
Provides information on evaluation associations as well as checklists, tools, guides and other resources.
James Cook University: Thinking About Thinking
For information to be useful there are two important components: comprehension and evaluation. This module will introduce you to these components and then look at different ways of thinking about yourselves, study problems and life in general.
Online Evaluation Resource Library
Library for those seeking to design, conduct or review project evaluations. Contains a number of professional development modules on key topics in Evaluation.
Online Texts
The following handbooks and texts are availably in their entirety online. Most are multi-chapter documents focusing on "how to's" of evaluation-related subjects.
Planning and Evaluation Wizard
The Project Planning and Evaluation Wizard is a software tool designed to assist project officers working on primary health care and health promotion projects to develop a case for their projects, project plans and evaluation plans, and project reports.
Program development and evaluation
Tools to assist in planning and implementing evaluations from University of Wisconsin - Extension.
Research Methods Knowledge Base
This website provides an overview of evaluation research.
Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
This page lists free resources for methods in evaluation and social research. The focus is on "how-to" do evaluation research and the methods used: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods. Most of these links are to resources that can be read over the web.
The Australasian Evaluation Society
The Australasian Evaluation Society is a professional organisation for people involved in evaluation. It has over 700 members involved in all aspects of evaluation and performance measurement.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook
This evaluation handbook provides a framework for thinking about evaluation as a relevant and useful program tool.