This review will help you organize your data and focus
your analysis. For example, if your objective was to
find program strengths and weaknesses, then the data
should be sorted in a way that you may decide what the
evaluation revealed about the program’s strengths
and weaknesses. Let’s take a look at some examples
of objectives from the Writing Evaluation Objectives
section to The Power of Proof, and how they would drive
the organization and focus of your analysis.
| Objective |
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Data/Analysis
Organization |
By October
2004, the staff at Cessation Services International
in Austin will be interviewed by an evaluation consultant
to identify the adequacy and appropriateness of
the program management.
|
Transcribe interview
notes and conduct content analysis to look for statements
related to program management that relate to “adequacy”
or “appropriateness”. |
By October, 2004, trained
staff will conduct 10 interviews and 4 focus groups
with current program participants in the No
Tobacco Tolerance coalition to determine to
what degree they are able and willing to use the
clean indoor air educational materials distributed
in January, 2004.
|
Transcribe notes from focus groups
and conduct content analysis that seeks statements
related to “ability to use” and “willingness
to use” the clean indoor air educational materials. |
Using
smoking data collected from youth in five high schools
in Leon County through the Youth Risk Behavior Survey
(YRBS), by December 2009, the evaluator will determine
the decline in the rate of smoking over a 5-year
period among minority youth in Leon County.
|
Select data for the selected high
schools from the YRBS data. Determine number of
youth responding (denominator) and number of youth
smoking (numerator) during each of the years in
the 5-year period. |
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