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Evaluation Tool

This page contains the online, interactive tool Approaches to Prevention Evaluation. This tool is designed to help you understand what evaluation is all about—why it’s important to evaluate your program and how to go about doing so.

To view the tool, click on Introduction, below. Then proceed through the presentation, step by step. (Note that in some cases, multiple steps are combined into one link).

Some of these sections will take a minute or two to load. Please be patient, it’s worth the wait!

The presentation is accompanied by a toolkit which you can either print out or save to your desktop. The toolkit contains worksheets that you will need to complete presentation activities. We suggest downloading the toolkit before, or at the end, of the presentation. Doing so while the presentation is running will end the presentation.  

Finally, several more evaluation resources are included in this section.   As with the toolkit, you can either print these resources or save them on your desktop.

Approaches to Prevention Evaluation

Introduction (12 mins.)
Step 1: Engage Stakeholders and Step 2: Describe the Program (6 mins.)
Step 3: Focus the Evaluation Design (14 mins.)
Step 4: Select Appropriate Data Collection Methods (8 mins.)
Step 5: Justify Conclusions and Step 6: Ensure Use and Share Lessons Learned (8 mins.)

Supporting Materials
Approaches to Prevention Evaluation Toolkit (.doc)

More Evaluation Resources (.pdf)
Commonly Used Evaluation Design
AEA Guiding Principles for Evaluators
Sample Evaluation Contract
Sample Evaluation Plan
Mysterious Research Phrases Explained