Evaluation “Coffee Breaks” from the CDC

Posted by nnlmneo on January 2nd, 2015 Posted in: Blog

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Want to build your repertoire of evaluation skills?  Check out this library of evaluation-related podcasts and webinars from the CDC’s Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention.  These are archived documents from 20-minute presentations about evaluation. The usual basic topics are represented, such as “Making Logic Models Work for You”  and “How Do I Develop a Survey?” But a number of the presentations cover topics that are not standard fare. Here are just a few titles that caught my eye:

• Facilitation Skills for Evaluators – Getting the Most Out of Partnership Engagement
• Using Qualitative Data to Share Programmatic Success 
• Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Evaluation
• Establishing a Baseline as Part of Your Evaluation
• Communicating about Data

Most presentations consist of PDFs of PowerPoint slides and talking points, but there are a few podcasts as well.  All presentations seem to be bird’s-eye overviews, but the final slides offer transcripts of Q&A discussion and a list of resources for more in-depth exploration of the topic.  It’s a great way to check out a new evaluation interest!