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1. Basic Considerations
_____ Object of the evaluation
_____ Purpose of the evaluation
_____ Client
_____ Other right-to-know audiences
_____ Authorized evaluator(s)
_____ Guiding values and criteria
_____ Standards for judging the evaluation
_____ Contractual questions
2. Information
_____ Required information
_____ Data-collection procedures
_____ Data-collection instruments and protocols
_____ Information sources
_____ Participant selection
_____ Provisions to obtain needed permissions to collect data
_____ Follow-up procedures to assure adequate information
_____ Provisions for assuring the quality of obtained information
_____ Provisions to store and maintain security of collected information
3. Analysis
_____ Procedures for analyzing quantitative information
_____ Procedures for analyzing qualitative information
4. Synthesis
_____ Participants in the process to reach judgments
_____ Procedures and guidelines for synthesizing findings and reaching
judgments
_____ Decisions on whether evaluation reports should include recommendations
5. Reports
_____ Deliverables and due dates
_____ Interim report formats, contents, lengths, audiences, and methods of
delivery
_____ Final report format, contents, length, audiences, and methods of
delivery
_____ Restrictions/permissions to publish information from or based on the
evaluation
6. Reporting Safeguards
_____ Anonymity/confidentiality
_____ Prerelease review of reports
_____ Conditions for participating in prerelease reviews
_____ Rebuttal by evaluatees
_____ Editorial authority
_____ Final authority to release reports
7. Protocol
_____ Contact persons
_____ Rules for contacting program personnel
_____ Communication channels and assistance
8. Evaluation Management
_____ Time line for evaluation work of both clients and evaluators
_____ Assignment of evaluation responsibilities
9. Client Responsibilities
_____ Access to information
_____ Services
_____ Personnel
_____ Information
_____ Facilities
_____ Equipment
_____ Materials
_____ Transportation assistance
_____ Workspace
10. Evaluation Budget
_____ Payment amounts and dates
_____ Conditions for payment, including delivery of required reports
_____ Budget limits/restrictions
_____ Agreed-upon indirect/overhead rates
_____ Contracts for budgetary matters
11. Review and Control of the Evaluation
_____ Contract amendment and cancellation provisions
_____ Provisions for periodic review, modification, and renegotiation of the
evaluation design as needed
_____ Provision for evaluating the evaluation against professional standards
of sound evaluation
Reprinted with permission from:
The Evaluation Center
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5237
Eval-Center@wmich.edu
www.wmich.edu/evalctr/index.html*
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