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Program Evaluation Roadmap
Types of Evaluation
Context Evaluation (situation): Provides the rationale for determining
objectives and setting priorities. It defines the relevant environment,
describes the desired and actual conditions pertaining to the environment and
identifies unmet needs and unused opportunities.
Cluster Evaluation: A type of evaluation that seeks to determine the
impacts of a collection of related projects on society as a whole. Cluster
evaluation looks across a group of projects to identify issues and problems that
affect an entire area of a program. Designed and used by the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation to determine the effectiveness of its grants making.
Empowerment Evaluation: Empowerment evaluation is the use of
evaluation concepts, techniques and findings to foster improvement and
self-determination. In empowerment evaluation, program participants maintain
control of the evaluation process; outside evaluators work to build the
evaluation capacity of participants and help them use evaluation findings to
advocate for their program.
Formative Evaluation: Evaluation conducted during the development and
implementation of a program whose primary purpose is providing information for
program improvement. Evaluation used to facilitate decisions as the program
progresses. Its primary concern is program improvement.
Implementation Evaluation: Evaluation activities that document the
evolution of a project and provide indications of what happens within a project
and why. Project directors use information to adjust current activities.
Implementation evaluation requires close monitoring of program delivery.
Participatory Evaluation: Evaluation in which the perspective of the
evaluator carries no more weight than other stakeholders, including participants
and the evaluation process and its results are relevant and useful to
stakeholders for future actions. Participatory approaches attempt to be
practical, useful and empowering to multiple stakeholders and actively engage
all stakeholders in the evaluation process.
Performance Evaluation: The evaluation of a particular achievement, in
the form of output or process.
Policy Evaluation: Evaluation of policies, plans and proposals for use
by policy makers and/or communities trying to effect policy change.
Program Evaluation: The evaluation of a structures intervention to
improve the well being of people, groups, organizations and communities.
Self-Evaluation: Self-assessment of program processes and/or outcomes
by those conducting or involved in the program.
Stakeholder Evaluation: Evaluation in which stakeholders participate
in the design, conduct, and/or interpretation of the evaluation.
Summative Evaluation: Evaluation conducted after completion of a
program (or a phase of the program) to determine program effectiveness and
worth.
Utilization Focused Evaluation: A type of evaluation that focuses its
design and implementation on use by the intended audience. The evaluator, rather
than acting as an independent judge, becomes a facilitator of evaluative
design-making by intended users.
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