Valuable Resources

This selection of resources offers guidance on general evaluation and reporting evaluation results. Select the resource you wish to view.

General Evaluation

Getting To Outcomes™ 2004:  Promoting Accountability Through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
This comprehensive guide covers many aspects of developing and implementing a substance abuse prevention program, including needs and resources assessment, planning, and evaluation. The guide is also available in Spanish.

Practical Evaluation of Public Health Programs: Workbook
Prepared for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Public Health Training Network to accompany a video broadcast course on program evaluation, this workbook includes exercises and questions for developing and implementing a program evaluation.

Step by Step Manuals
The CDC Evaluation Working Group maintains this list of program evaluation manuals.

Understanding Evaluation: The Way to Better Prevention Programs
This handbook prepared for the U.S. Department of Education describes the why and how of program evaluation and outlines the steps of conducting evaluations. A section on “Interpreting and Reporting Evaluation Findings” includes considerations for framing the report for different audiences and other tips for reporting results.

Reporting Results

Analyzing, Interpreting and Reporting Basic Research Results
From The Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits web site, this resource includes tips on analyzing and reporting research results. An outline of a sample report is provided.

Communicating Evaluation Results (AROW Module 6: Project Evaluation)
This section of the University of Sydney’s online learning module discusses considerations of an evaluation report’s audience and timeliness.

Ensure Use of Evaluation Findings and Share Lessons Learned
(Introduction to Program Evaluation for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs)
This chapter of CDC’s evaluation manual describes how to make recommendations from evaluation findings for various audiences, provides tips for writing an evaluation report, and links to sample state tobacco control evaluation reports.

How Can You Report What You Have Learned?
(A Manager’s Guide to Program Evaluation)
This chapter in the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families’ program evaluation guide reviews how to prepare an evaluation report for various audiences and includes a sample outline of a report.

Preparing Useful Evaluation Reports
(Guide to Project Evaluation: A Participatory Approach)
In Health Canada’s evaluation guide, this chapter outlines a sample evaluation report and reviews the contents for each section of such a report.

Reporting
(User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation)
This chapter on reporting results in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) handbook on project evaluation includes details on preparing an evaluation report and includes a sample report.

Reporting the Results of Mixed Method Evaluations
(User-Friendly Handbook for Mixed Method Evaluations)
This NSF handbook on mixed method evaluations includes a chapter with details and tips on preparing an evaluation report.

Reporting Your Findings
(A Guide to Evaluating Crime Control of Programs in Public Housing)
Prepared for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, this chapter describes the purpose of an evaluation report for funders, provides a sample outline of such a report, and includes suggestions for ways other than an evaluation report to disseminate evaluation findings.

Tell Your Story: Guidelines for Preparing an Evaluation Report
This practical guide offers tips and recommendations for writing an evaluation report, including sections on when to submit a report, guidelines for writing the report, descriptions of report sections, report examples, and an evaluation report checklist.