BASIC STEPS

Typical Evaluation

Traditional evaluation of a project, programme or service includes these basic steps.

See also information on these pages:

STEPS TO DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT AN EVALUATION	DESCRIPTION
Assemble the team	Plan and undertake an evaluation as a team and involve the right people to ensure relevance and ownership of results. The right people may include staff, clients, community members, for example.
Establish Purpose	Identify purpose, evaluative questions and potentially your theory of change or logic model.
Decide the type/s of evaluation you need	Consider what type/s of evaluation you need, given your purpose.
Develop an evaluation plan	Create your evaluation plan.
Collect data	Collect the data and prepare it for analysis.
Analyse data and make assessments	Examine the data and draw conclusions from it.
Write up findings	Write your evaluation report, see for example Presenting Results in www.evaluationtoolbox.net.au.
Report and share findings	Present your findings in appropriate formats. Present your findings in appropriate formats. See our Use and Share pages for detailed information.

If you are going to use Developmental Evaluation or build evaluative thinking and processes into your organisation, you will need to take different steps.

Purpose

Know why you need evidence