{"id":2925,"date":"2015-07-23T13:27:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T20:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/evaluation\/blog\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2019-09-24T10:10:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:10:46","slug":"getting_started_in_evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2015\/07\/23\/getting_started_in_evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started in Evaluation – Evaluation Guides from the OERC"},"content":{"rendered":"

New to the world of evaluation? What is your boss talking about when she says she wants you to measure outcomes, not outputs?\u00a0 What is an indicator? How many responses should you get from your surveys?<\/p>\n

Sometimes people think evaluation is just the form that you fill out at the end of a class or event. But in fact evaluation can start at the beginning of the project when you do a community assessment and evaluation includes building support for your project from your stakeholders. And it continues through making an evaluation plan as part of your project, gathering data, analyzing data, and reporting the data back to the stakeholders in a way that it is useful.\u00a0 Here is a model that the CDC uses to describe the evaluation framework:<\/p>\n

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The Outreach Evaluation Resource Center (OERC) has a series of three booklets\u00a0entitled Planning and Evaluating Health Information Outreach Projects<\/a> that guide people through the evaluation process, from needs assessment to analyzing data.\u00a0 While focusing on “health information outreach” this series of books can be used to learn how to do evaluation for any type of project.<\/p>\n

Booklet 1: Getting Started with Community-Based Outreach<\/a><\/p>\n