OERC’s Tools and Resources for Evaluation Guide

Posted by nnlmneo on March 6th, 2015 Posted in: Data Visualization

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Have you ever found yourself trying to do an evaluation activity, but needing that one helpful tool? Or perhaps you need a step-by-step guide on how to do a community assessment, or are looking for ways to build evaluation into a project that you are planning?

The OERC has an online guide called Tools and Resources for Evaluation that you and your library can use to evaluate your programs. Here are some of the types of tools and resources described in the Guide.

Community Oriented Outreach

• Tips on successful collaborations and tools for improving collaboration with community networks
• Toolkits for practical participatory evaluation and processes for conducting outcome-based evaluations

Evaluation Planning

• Step-by-step guides on incorporating evaluation planning into your outreach projects
• Instructions on using logic models for program planning

Data Collection and Analysis

• Tips for questionnaire development
• Resources for statistical methods of data analysis
• Guides for analyzing qualitative and quantitative data

Reporting and Visualizing

• Help with creating popular data dashboards
• Descriptions of data visualization methods
• Tools and TEDtalks about how you will present your data

Note: links updated 9/21/2017.