Evaluation “Coffee Breaks” from the CDC

Posted by Marco Tamase on January 5th, 2015 Posted in: Education & Training, Non-NLM Resources, Public Health

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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 a few titles that stand out:

• 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!