{"id":4644,"date":"2016-08-12T13:35:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T20:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/evaluation\/blog\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2019-09-24T10:10:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:10:45","slug":"new-neo-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2016\/08\/12\/new-neo-resource\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation Planning for Proposals: a New NEO Resource"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4668\" src=\"\/neo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/angry-crazy-business-woman-with-a-laptop-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"Angry crazy Business woman with a laptop\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever found yourself in this situation?\u00a0 You\u2019re well along in your proposal writing when you get to the section that says \u201chow will you evaluate your project?\u201d\u00a0 Do you think:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u201cOh #%$*! It&#8217;s <em>that<\/em> section again.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Why do they make us do this?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Yay! Here&#8217;s where I get to describe how I will collect evidence that my project is really working!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We at the NEO suggest thinking about evaluation from the get-go, so you&#8217;ll be prepared when you get to that section.\u00a0 And we have some great <a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/evaluation\/guides.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">booklets<\/a> that show how to do that.\u00a0 But sometimes people aren\u2019t happy when we say \u201chere are some booklets to read to get started,\u201d even though they <em>are<\/em> awesome booklets.<\/p>\n<p>So the NEO has made a new <a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/evaluation\/evaluationresources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">web page<\/a> to make it easier to incorporate evaluation into the project planning process and end up with an evaluation plan that develops naturally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/evaluation\/evaluationresources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4664 size-medium\" src=\"\/neo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/Steps-to-Evaluation-Plan-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"1. Do a Community Assessment; 2. Make a Logic Model; 3. Develop Measurable Objectives; 4. Create an Evaluation Plan\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We group the process into 4 steps: 1) Do a Community Assessment; 2) Make a Logic Model; 3) Develop Measurable Objectives for Your Outcomes; and 4) Create an Evaluation Plan.\u00a0 \u00a0Rather than explain what everything is and how to use it (for that you can read the booklets), this page links to the worksheets and samples (and some how-to sections) from the booklets so that you can jump right into planning.\u00a0 And you can skip the things you don\u2019t need or that you\u2019ve already done.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, we have included links to posts in this blog that show examples of the areas covered so people can put them in context.<\/p>\n<p>We hope this helps with your entire project planning and proposal writing experience, as well as provides support for that pesky evaluation section of the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Please let <a href=\"mailto:\/\/olneyc@uw.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cindy<\/a>\u00a0(olneyc@uw.edu) or <a href=\"mailto:\/\/kjvargas@uw.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">me<\/a>\u00a0(kjvargas@uw.edu) know how it works for you, and feel free to make suggestions.\u00a0 Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever found yourself in this situation?\u00a0 You\u2019re well along in your proposal writing when you get to the section that says \u201chow will you evaluate your project?\u201d\u00a0 Do you think: \u201cOh #%$*! It&#8217;s that section again.\u201d &#8220;Why do they make us do this?&#8221; &#8220;Yay! Here&#8217;s where I get to describe how I will&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2016\/08\/12\/new-neo-resource\/\">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":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ICUo-1cU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644","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=4644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6521,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions\/6521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}