ABSTRACT

Whether you are responsible for planning, implementing, and evaluating peer and prevention programs or simply an outside consultant or evaluator, this book will be an essential guide for your work. This user-friendly training manual provides a blueprint of a step-by-step approach to setting-up an evaluation program that guides you through the planning, development, implementation, data collection, and organization stages, and then communicating the results to others. The authors establish a rationale for program evaluation, explaining how it differs from research, and discuss ways to align the vision, mission, and goals of a program. They then describe several approaches to evaluation and methods for successfully collecting and analyzing data. Methods for reporting the results are also considered and numerous forms and charts are provided to assist with and illustrate the organization, evaluation, and reporting of data. An accompanying CD contains guidelines, handouts, and forms that can be reproduced for your own use in evaluation.

chapter 1|21 pages

Rationale for Evaluation

Why Is It Critical?

chapter 3|22 pages

Prevention and Peer Programs

What Are They, and Why Are They Important to Evaluate?

chapter 4|16 pages

Focusing the evaluation through Alignment

chapter 5|16 pages

Approaching Evaluation

A Blueprint for Choosing the Right Questions: Are You on the Right Track?

chapter 6|18 pages

Planning the Evaluation Process

Start at the Beginning with the End in Mind

chapter 7|24 pages

A Blueprint Plan for Collecting Data

What to Collect, How to Collect, and What Method to Use When Collecting

chapter 8|21 pages

A Blueprint Plan for Analyzing Data

chapter 9|28 pages

A Blueprint Plan for Reporting Results

chapter 10|16 pages

Blueprint of Resources