DIFFERENT TYPES OF EVALUATION

DIFFERENT TYPES OF EVALUATION

Once you pinpoint the reason for conducting your evaluation and the target population, you can better determine the most
appropriate type of evaluation. This section describes the ve major types of evaluations andthe appropriatecircumstances for
their uses.

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Formative
Summative
Process
Outcomes
Impact

Evaluation
Definition Uses Examples
Type

When starting a new How well is the program

Evaluates a program during
program being delivered?
development in order to make early
Toassist in the early What strategies can we
Formative improvements
phases of program use to improve this
Helps to re ne or improve program
development program?

To helpdecide whether
Should this program
to continue or end a
Provides information on program continue to be funded?
program
effectiveness Should we expand these
To help determine
Summative Conducted after the completion of services to all other
whether a program
the program design after-school programs in
should be expanded to
the community?
other locations
 To determinewhy an
established program has
Did your program meet
changed over time
its goals for recruitment
Determines if speci c program To address inef ciencies
of program
strategies were implemented as in program delivery of
participants?
Process planned services
Did participants receive
Focuses on program implementation To accurately portray to
the speci ed number of
outside parties program
service hours?
operations (e.g., for
replication elsewhere)

Did your participants

report the desired
Focuses on the changes in To decide whether changes after
comprehension, attitudes, program/activity affect completing a program
behaviors, and practices that result participants outcomes cycle?
Outcomes from programs activities To establish and What are the short or
Can include both short and long measure clear bene ts long termresults
term results of the program observed among (or
reported by)
participants?

What changes in your

program participants
behaviors are
Focuses on long term, sustained To in uence policy
attributable to your
changes as a result of the program To see impact in
program?
Impact activities, both positive/negative and longitudinal studies with
What effects would
intended/unintended comparison groups
program participants
miss out on without this
program?

Now that you have reviewed these different types of evaluation designs, you may want to revisit your Logic Model
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