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Vol 1 - Project Manager's Guide to Evaluation

Table of contents


THE AUTHORS
THE ORGANISATIONS
THE NETWORK CERN-EEIG
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION

1.1 What is this guide about, who is it for and what does it do?
1.2 What is evaluation and what it is not
1.3 What evaluation is not
1.4 Why do we evaluate projects?

CHAPTER 2: SOME FUNDAMENTALS

2.1 Considering the benefits
2.2 What are the basic questions an evaluation can answer?
2.3 When do you start?

CHAPTER 3: ORGANISING AN EVALUATION

3.1 Getting started – coping with a project application form
3.2 What will be the main sources of the data and how will the data be collected and compiled?

CHAPTER 4: EVALUATING EUROPEAN SPONSORED PROJECTS
CHAPTER 5: WHO IS INVOLVED IN EVALUATION?

5.1 Who will be involved?
5.2 Roles and responsibilities of the evaluator
5.3 What are some possible types of evaluation teams?
5.4 How can you decide what team is best for you?

CHAPTER 6: PUTTING EVALUATION INTO PRACTICE

6.1 Getting the sequence right
6.2 Choosing a model
6.3 Dimensions of performance
6.4 Key evaluation questions
6.5 A framework

CHAPTER 7: PERFORMANCE INDICATORS, PERFORMANCE CRITERIA, PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

7.1 Do we need them?
7.2 Performance indicators
7.3 How do you design indicators?
7.4 Performance criteria and performance standards
7.5 Useful concepts
7.6 Evidence

CHAPTER 8: COLLECTING YOUR EVALUATION DATA

8.1 Identifying the data you will need to collect

DATA COLLECTION PLANNING WORKSHEET

8.2 Identifying potential data sources
8.3 Data Collection Methods and Instruments

DATA COLLECTION INSTRUMENTS: AN OVERVIEW

8.4 Designing data collection tools
8.4 Data collection procedures
8.5 Training the data collectors
8.6 Reviewing your data collection plan
8.7 Monitoring data collection activities

CHAPTER 9: DATA PROCESSING - HOW DO YOU MAKE SENSE OF EVALUATION DATA?

9.1 Turning data into knowledge
9.2 Consequences and impact
9.3 Statistical procedures

CHAPTER 10: EVALUATION PRODUCTS

10.1 Reporting results
10.2 Alternative evaluation products
10.3 Staff development as an evaluation product
10.4 Visual materials
10.5 Writing evaluation reports
10.6 Consultation
10.7 Structuring evaluation reports

CHAPTER 11: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
CHAPTER 12: PROBLEMS AND PITFALLS

12.1 Problems
12.2 Pitfalls

CHAPTER 13 THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EVALUATION

13.1 Models and theories in evaluation
13.2 Evolution of evaluation theory
13.3 Methodological differences
13.4 A classification system

CHAPTER 14: AND FINALLY.... EVALUATING YOUR EVALUATION SYSTEM
TOOLKIT
SAMPLE OUTLINE FOR EVALUATION PLAN
SECONDARY DATA CHECKLIST
BASICS OF DEVELOPING QUESTIONNAIRES
CONDUCTING FOCUS GROUPS
GUIDELINES FOR CONDUCTING INTERVIEWS
EVALUATION PRODUCTS
EVALUATION FINAL REPORTS
MICHAEL SCRIVENS’S KEY EVALUATION CHECKLIST (KEC)
WRITTEN EVALUATION REPORTS
THE ORAL REPORT
BIBLIOGRAPHY

These publication stem from assignments, seminars, projects and reports of navreme and its partners across Europe and beyond. The content of these publications is practice-oriented, they are rather working tools than academic or theoretical aspirations. They may develop into fully-fledged books in the future, if so needed. In their present shape, they are meant to stimulate the creativity of colleagues to use and adapt them as appropriate. We hope these booklets will encourage many of you to upgrade, deepen, valorise and extend the value of projects, evaluations, and resulting learning - in order to enable us to do our jobs a little better in the future!

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