EVALUATION 101 - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention文档文档.pptVIP

* * Lots of this will have been decided when you “staked the claim” but worth considering again. How far out the chain is determined by several considerations. These are not a formula that will produce a result, but rather separate conversations which may lead to contradictory conclusions. In that case, then a need to reconcile where to put the resources. Key questions include: Ripple effect or reasonableness: This one should have been answered in “staking the claim”. The question is how far out the chain of causation is it reasonable to expect the intervention to have an impact. Through the process of refinement in staking the claim, the program should have made decisions about synchronizing the level and mix of activities and the desired “claim.” Accountability: This is what the major stakeholders are expecting of you. As mentioned, they might be “wrong” and err in either a too ambitious or not ambitious enough direction. Still, in designing an evaluation, the information of most import to the stakeholder is a major consideration. Measurability: As mentioned, this should never be the reason to scale back an evaluation, except as an admission that NOW we are unable to measure this effect. * Lots of this will have been decided when you “staked the claim” but worth considering again. How far out the chain is determined by several considerations. These are not a formula that will produce a result, but rather separate conversations which may lead to contradictory conclusions. In that case, then a need to reconcile where to put the resources. Key questions include: Ripple effect or reasonableness: This one should have been answered in “staking the claim”. The question is how far out the chain of causation is it reasonable to expect the intervention to have an impact. Through the process of refinement in staking the claim, the program should have made decisions about synchronizing the level and mix of activities and the desired “claim.” Accountability: This