Learning and Resources

• Frequently Asked Evaluation Questions
• Beyond Ranks: Measuring Progress in Your Community webinar recording and slides. (April 22, 2014)

Additional Learning

• A Guide to Actionable Measurement (from the Gates Foundation) provides guidelines for considering measurement during strategy development and review.
• A Guide To Measuring Advocacy and Policy (from Organizational Research Services) provides a framework for thinking differently about advocacy and policy work and directions for evaluation design.
• Equity & Empowerment Lens 2012 (from Multnomah County, OR) provides a framework and set of tools to help decision-makers recognize and address the social and institutional policies, procedures and practices that perpetuate differential outcomes for populations.
• Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health (from CDC) is an easy to read primer on how to evaluate public health initiatives.
• Health and Well-Being is a portion of the National Quality Forum website where you can access reports that focus on measurement and tracking progress for population health.
• Physical Activity Evaluation Handbook (from the CDC) Step 1: Engage Stakeholders describes how to engage stakeholders and provides examples of stakeholders specific to Physical Activity Programs. The handbook also includes a worksheet that can be adapted to other policies or programs, pp. 11-15.
• Program Manager’s Guide to Evaluation (from the Department of Health and Human Services)
  • Chapter 2 “What is Program Evaluation?” lays out the advantages and disadvantages for different types of evaluation teams. Beginning on p. 6.
  • Chapter 3 “Who Should Conduct Your Evaluation?” provides an overview of program evaluation including the basic questions answered by an evaluation and what is involved in conducting an evaluation. Beginning on p. 13.
  • Chapter 4 “How Do You Hire and Manage an Outside Evaluator?” provides guidance for the logistics of finding and managing an outside evaluator. Beginning on p. 19.