Guide to Planning and Conducting Program Evaluation

What is program evaluation?

Program evaluation involves the systematic collection and analysis of information about a program, using research methods.

Program evaluation seeks multiple sources of information as a means to improve program implementation and to understand program effectiveness.

Program evaluation generates information about program effectiveness and how to improve programs.

In this way, program evaluation supports evidence-informed decision making.

A Guide to Planning and Conducting Program Evaluation

This user-friendly guide includes checklists and templates and links to other evaluation resources. The Guide will help you to:

• Complete a useful and credible evaluation;
• Develop a sound description of the program, including a program logic model;
• Develop a feasible evaluation methodology;
• Disseminate evaluation findings;
• Develop recommendations;
• Follow evaluation standards upheld by the Canadian Evaluation Society.