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Evaluation Activities in Organizations
- Much of the information in this topic is adapted from the book Field Guide to Nonprofit Program Design, Marketing and Evaluation.
- Guidelines for evaluating the process and results of organizational change
are included in the books Field
Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development and Field
Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development with Nonprofits .
Evaluation is carefully collecting information about something in order to
make necessary decisions about it. There are a large number and wide variety
of evaluations. Evaluation is closely related to performance management (whether
about organizations, groups, processes or individuals), which includes identifying
measures to assess progress toward achieving results.
General Guidelines About Doing All Forms
of Evaluation
Overviews of Major Types of Evaluations
Also consider
General Resources
Related Library Topics
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Library’s Business
Planning Blog
Library’s Building
a Business Blog
Library’s Strategic
Planning Blog
General Guidelines About Doing All Forms of Evaluation
How
to Design Successful Evaluation and Assessment Plans
Internal
Eval Week: Pamela Bishop on Working as a New Internal Evaluator
Internal
Evaluation Week: Debbie Cohen on Working with External Evaluators
Internal
Eval Week: Anthony Kim on Balancing Dual Roles as an Internal Evaluator
Stanley
Capela and Ariana Brooks on Planting a Seed to Overcome Resistance to Evaluation
Improving evaluation questions and answers: Getting
actionable answers for real-world decision makers (takes long
time to download)
Jack Mills on
Setting Up Evaluation Contracts
Amy Germuth
on Reporting Findings
Our Ineffectiveness at Measuring Effectiveness
How
to Perform Evaluation Reports
Donald L Kirkpatrick’s training evaluation model
– the four levels of learning evaluation
Overviews of Major Types of Evaluations
Advertising
Efforts
Boards
of Directors (For-Profit)
Board
of Directors (Nonprofit)
Business
Plans
Chief Executive
Evaluation
Community
Assessments
Customer
Satisfaction
Employee
Performance
Financial Management Practices
(For-Profit)
Financial Management
Practices (Nonprofit)
Fundraising
Practices in Nonprofits
Human
Resource Management Practices in Nonprofits
Legal
Activities in Nonprofits
Marketing Management
Management
Functions (For-Profit)
Management
Functions (Nonprofit)
Organizational
Communications
Organizations
(For-Profit)
Organizations
(Nonprofit)
Organizational
Performance
Program
Evaluation
Sales Performance
Self-Assessments
Strategic Planning Practices
Team Performance
Training
and Development
General Resources
American Evaluation Association Public Library
American Evaluation
Association Discussion List
Innovation Network
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