Analysing & Reporting
This step will help you understand your data and present it in a meaningful way.
Getting Started
Do you know why evaluation is important? Are staff and managers motivated to get started? Do you have clear statements about the difference you want to make as an organisation?
Collecting Information
Do you have statements that help you recognise the impact that you have? Do you have the right systems to enable you to measure what you do, and the difference that you make?
Using Consultants (Optional)
Do you know what you want from an external evaluation, and can you communicate that? Do you know how to go about commissioning consultants?
Analysing & Reporting
Do you know how to analyse the information you collect? Can you write a report about what you've done and the difference you've made?
Learn from your Findings
Do you know how to use the findings to improve your service? Do you know how to share your findings with others?
Events & Training
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Resources
ESS Support Guides
ESS Support Guide 8 - Analysing information for evaluation
This guide covers how you can analyse the information you have gathered. We focus mainly on analysing outcome information but the principles can equally apply to your outputs. ...
ESS Support Guide 9 - Writing case studies
One of the ways we report on our work and our evaluation is through case studies. This support guide gives some tips on how to write case studies .
ESS Support Guide11: Report writing
In this guide we set out the elements that you would expect to find in a core internal self-evaluation report, excluding the finance section. This guide is based on our report template ...
Toolkits & Guides
Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide 5: Reporting and dissemination
This Guide sets out how to write up and disseminate your evaluation and highlights why the information is important and useful.
Mental health improvement: Evidence and practice - Guide 4: Making an impact
This is the fourth in a series of Evaluation Guides, which aim to encourage, support and improve standards in the evaluation of mental health improvement initiatives. impact. This guide discusses ...
Tools
ESS Outcome Report Template
This downloadable word document sets out some headings for things to consider when reporting on outcomes.
ESS's Planning Tool for Report Writing
This document helps plan what information you need to include in your evaluation report, how you will display it and when you need to collate it by, to sure your report is completed in full and on ...
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