{"id":2283,"date":"2015-03-06T09:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T17:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/evaluation\/blog\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2019-09-24T10:10:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:10:47","slug":"tools-and-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2015\/03\/06\/tools-and-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"OERC&#8217;s Tools and Resources for Evaluation Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/neo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2295\" src=\"\/neo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/image.jpg\" alt=\"Data Dashboard Example\" width=\"261\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p>The OERC has an online guide called <a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/neo\/guides\/tools\">Tools and Resources for Evaluation<\/a>\u00a0that you and your library can use to evaluate your programs. Here are some of the\u00a0types of tools and resources described in the Guide.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/neo\/guides\/tools-and-resources\/community-assessment\">Community Oriented Outreach<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tips on successful collaborations and tools for improving collaboration with community networks<\/li>\n<li>Toolkits for practical participatory evaluation and processes for conducting outcome-based evaluations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/neo\/guides\/tools-and-resources\/evaluation-planning\">Evaluation Planning<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Step-by-step guides on incorporating evaluation planning into your outreach projects<\/li>\n<li>Instructions on using logic models for program planning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/neo\/guides\/tools-and-resources\/data-collection\">Data Collection and Analysis<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tips for questionnaire development<\/li>\n<li>Resources for statistical methods of data analysis<\/li>\n<li>Guides for analyzing qualitative and quantitative data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/neo\/guides\/tools-and-resources\/analysis-and-visualization\">Reporting and Visualizing<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Help with creating popular data dashboards<\/li>\n<li>Descriptions of data visualization methods<\/li>\n<li>Tools and TEDtalks about how you will present your data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note: links updated 9\/21\/2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2015\/03\/06\/tools-and-resources\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-visualization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ICUo-AP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6077,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions\/6077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}