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Program Evaluation Overview (pdf): This document provides an introduction to the major concepts with program evaluations and provides some samples to illustrate points.
Measuring Program Quality: A Guide to Assessment Tools: This report by the Forum for Youth Investment provides potential users with useful information to guide their decision-making. Decision-making becomes an important process when determining which type of evaluation tools or processes will fit your program.
Building Quality Improvement Systems: Lessons from Three Emerging Efforts in the Youth-Serving Sector: This report from the Forum for Youth Investment provides a preliminary framework for planning any kind of program quality improvement work in the youth-serving sector.
The 2002 User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation: This is a helpful handbook on evaluation from the National Science Foundation.
Science Teachers Efficacy Beliefs Instrument (STEBI): This site looks at self-efficacy in teaching science, which relates to one’s ability to see oneself as a “do-er” and “teacher” of science.
The Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) Out-of-School Time (OST) Program Evaluation Database: This is a compilation of evaluation profiles from Out-of-School Time (OST) programs and initiatives. It provides accessible information about the evaluation work of both large- and small-scale programs.
The Rochester Evaluation of Asset Development for Youth (READY) (pdf): The READY tool is an instrument designed to help youth serving programs evaluate the impact of their programs on youth development outcomes of participants.
Farm to School Curriculum Evaluation: The Farm to School work group in California reviewed curriculum for teachers to use with a farm to school program, and gathered reviews from others. This online form shows a model approach to curriculum evaluation.
