On-Line Evaluation Resources

The Kellogg's Foundation Evaluation Handbook (download)

European Commission Evaluation Guides
Evaluating EU Activities: A Practical Guide for the Commission Services
Ex Ante Evaluation: A Practical Guide for Preparing Proposals for Expenditure Programmes
Evaluating EU Expenditure Programmes: A Guide: Ex post and intermediate evaluation
Good Practice Guidelines for the Management of the Evaluation Function

World Bank's Operations Evaluation Department
See the Evaluation Tools and Evaluation Approaches section of this website: It overviews the evaluation tools used by the World Bank in promoting accountability and learning (Project Reviews, Country Assistance Evaluations, Sector and Thematic Reviews and Process Reviews) and the objectives-based evaluation approach with definitions of its performance rating criteria: outcome, sustainability, institutional development impact, and bank and borrower performance.

WWW Virtual Library: Evaluation - this site is part of the worldwide virtual library and gives lots of comprehensive links to other sites and resources on evaluation. The links to on-line educational resources are particularly helpful.

UNICEF Research and Evaluation function is producing an Evaluation Technical Notes Series (launched in 2002) to provide practical guidance on key aspects of managing and carrying out evaluation activities. The Technical Notes are in PDF format so you can easily download and print them.
Issue 1: Children Participating in Research, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) — Ethics and Your Responsibilities as a Manager (2002)
Issue 2: What goes into a Terms of Reference (2002)

Online Evaluation Resource Library This library was developed for education professionals seeking to design, conduct, document, or review project evaluations. OERL is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the US. OERL provides a large collection of evaluation plans, reports, and instruments from past and current project evaluations in several content areas; Guidelines for how to improve evaluation practice using the Web site resources

The UK Cabinet Office Policy Hub website has a section on Evauating Policy which provides information, resources and guidance for Policy Evaluation and Analysis, including The Magenta Book

CMPS Toolkit - The UK Government's Centre for Management and Policy Studies (CMPS) offers courses, events, papers and tools to encourage evidence-based policy-making within government.

Campbell Collaboration (C2) is a non-profit organization that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral and educational arenas. They prepare, maintain and disseminate systematic reviews of evaluations of interventions as well as information about trials of interventions. Summaries and electronic brochures of reviews and reports of trials are available for policy makers, practitioners, researchers and the public.

Nordic Campbell Center (NC2) works to promote evidence-informed policy and practice in the field of social work and welfare policy. The center produces and disseminates systematic reviews in this field and actively takes part in debates and discussions about how to improve quality in decision-making in social and welfare policy and practice.

The Scottish Executive Effective Interventions Unit has produced a series of Evaluation Guides for Drug Action Teams in Scotland

RE-AIM is a US website that presents a systematic evaluation framework for researchers, practitioners, and policy decision makers seeking to evaluate health promotion interventions aimimg for behaviour change.

The Charities Evaluation Service (London) produce a number of guides on monitoring and evaluation for the voluntary sector including
· Monitoring and evaluation made easy: a handbook for voluntary organisations.
· Practical monitoring and evaluation: a new handbook on evaluation in the voluntary sector
· First steps in monitoring and evaluation: a new basic DIY guide
· How well are we doing? A free guide to self evaluation.

New Economics Foundation (2000) Prove it! Measuring the Effect of Neighbourhood Renewal on Local People. Available to download at the New Economics Foundation website.

Save the Children Toolkits. A practical guide to assessment, monitoring, review and evaluation. Development Manual 5. Reprinted 1998.

The Scottish Community Development Centre maintains material on measuring community development and a framework for planning and evaluating community learning

LTSM evaluation toolbox has been developed by CSET Evaluation Team at Lancaster University for those involved in learning and teaching.

Performance Indicators Knowledge Base. An online interactive database containing information on performance indicators from all sectors of public services. There are currently approx 16,000 PIs in the Knowledge Base, primarily from the UK, but intentions are to expand to include international PI information.

Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research. A free resource with many useful links, but not very easy to read due to the lay out of the text on the website.

Social Research Methodology - this is part of a huge website on social research methodology, this site has a useful search engine that navigates the information very quickly and provides a very comprehensive list of resources and information on evaluation. Benefits from being UK based.

Bill Trochim's Centre for Social Research Methods - This site is very helpful and well worth a visit, although some of the resources are not freely available over the web.

Electronic roadmap for evaluation - Another US site that presents an interesting format, although again very orientated to program evaluation and particularly in the USD context. The examples of evaluations are interesting.

The Community Toolbox - this is a site aimed at voluntary and community organisations in the US and is mainly programme evaluation.

Ericae.net is a clearinghouse for information on assessment, evaluation and research in the education sector run by the University of Maryland. The website has a gateway to internet sites and resources that address educational assessment, evaluation and research.

The University of Western Michigan's Evaluation Centre includes some useful checklists

The Southern Cross University in Australia has some action research tools

Eldis has a useful toolkit on participatory approaches to monitoring and evaluation from a development
perspective

The Enterprise Development Impact Assessment Information Service has essays, a bibliographic search facility and useful toolkit

The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drugs Addiction have published an evaluation instruments bank

Evaluation zone - a sector of the Trainingzone website - has an online development programme on evaluation for training professionals concerned with assessing the contribution of training to an organisation's business. Moderated by Paul Kearns.

Bob Williams, an evaluator in Australasia, has published a range of tools and resources for evaluation purposes on his website

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