Doing An Evaluation
Program evaluation may be conducted at several stages during a program's lifetime. Each of these stages raises different questions to be answered by the evaluator, and correspondingly different evaluation approaches are needed. Rossi, Lipsey and Freeman (2004) suggest the following kinds of assessment, which may be appropriate at these different stages:
- Assessment of the need for the program
- Assessment of program design and logic/theory
- Assessment of how the program is being implemented (i.e., is it being implemented according to plan? Are the program's processes maximizing possible outcomes?)
- Assessment of the program's outcome or impact (i.e., what it has actually achieved)
- Assessment of the program's cost and efficiency
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