Tools

• A generative model for developing evaluation hypotheses
  A form based on Pawson & Tilley's Realistic Evaluation to state possible causes for program effects: P x C => A = O. See Joinery post for 15 Feb 2011
• Contributing Factors worksheet
  Useful considerations for developing logic models in Step One of the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF). Adapted from SAMHSA materials presented at the National SPF-SIG Meeting by the Intervening Variables Workgroup of the National Cross Site Evaluation Initiative, Bethesda, Maryland, July 17, 2007.
• definition of an effective program or practice
  A pdf that can be used as a slide for describing why you've chosen your program or practice
• Generic Evaluation Form
  Here's a short three-part generic evaluation form that can serve as the basis for evaluating and getting feedback about your presentations, informational meetings and training. Three references are given.
• Meeting Record Form
  Here's a one-page form to record what takes place at your meetings. Keep in mind that every meeting should have an agenda that will produce certain "ends" within a set time and conclude with an evaluation of how the meeting went: the "good," "bad," and downright "ugly" that you do not want to repeat.
• Teacher's Cheat Sheet
  A guide for teachers in asking oral questions. Has starter questions to cover Bloom's & Rick Stiggins' taxonomies. With strategies to extend students thinking.
• Using ICOM modeling & Examples
  IDEF0/ICOM is a method designed to model the decisions, actions and activities of an organization or system, for analyzing and communicating the functional perspective of the system.