Analysing & Reporting
This step will help you to:
- 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 1.2 - Developing a Logic Model
This guide comes out of work that we did with funding from NHS Health Scotland to help build understanding about logic modelling. For that ...
ESS Support Guide 3.1 - 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 3.2 - 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 Guide 3.3: 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 ...
ESS Support Guide 3.4 - Using Qualitative Information for Evaluation
This guide will help you to think through how you can make use of qualitative information in evaluation. It looks at what qualitative information you might ...
Thematic Guides and resources
Addressing the challenges for evaluation
This paper is for people with a role in commissioning, funding or evaluating ...
Befriending and Mentoring Evaluation Resource Pack
This resource pack was comissioned by Befriending Network Scotland, Scottish Mentoring Network and Evaluation Support Scotland to support projects to undertake monitoring ...
Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide 5: Reporting and dissemination
This is the fifth in the series of Scottish Executive Effective Intervention Unit's Evaluation guides. This Guide sets out how to write up and disseminate your evaluation and highlights why ...
ESS Support Guide 1.2 - Developing a Logic Model
This guide comes out of work that we did with funding from NHS Health Scotland to help build understanding about logic modelling. For that ...
ESS Support Guide 3.4 - Using Qualitative Information for Evaluation
This guide will help you to think through how you can make use of qualitative information in evaluation. It looks at what qualitative information you might ...
Evaluating Community Projects - A Practical Guide
by Marilyn Taylor, Derrick Purdue, Mandy Wilson and Pete Wilde These guidelines were developed as part of a Joseph Rowntree Foundation Programme to help 20 community and voluntary ...
Managing Outcomes - A Guide for Homelessness Organisations
This guide has been written for people working in the homelessness field. It provides definitions and examples of identifying outcomes, explores the different perspectives of stakeholder groups ...
Mental Health Improvement: Evidence and Practice - Guide 1: Evidence Based Practice
This is the first in a series of Evaluation Guides that aim to encourage, support and improve standards in the evaluation of mental health improvement initiatives. This guide aims to help ...
Mental Health Improvement: Evidence and Practice - Guide 2: Measuring Success
This guide aims to help develop indicators to gauge progress and assess the effectiveness of mental health improvement interventions. Covers the use of consultation to develop robust, valid and ...
Mental Health Improvement: Evidence and Practice - Guide 3: Getting Results
This is the third in a series of Evaluation Guides, which aim to encourage, support and improve standards in the evaluation of mental health improvement initiatives. This guide gives an overview ...
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 ...
Passport to Evaluation
This guide produced by the Home Office and updated May 2009, looks at the basic techniques used to evaluate crime reduction projects. It explains evaluation within a ...
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Evaluation Resource Pack
This comprehensive pack from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation takesd the reader through the whole process of evaluation. It is clearly written and well explained, covering the pros and cons of a ...
Prove it - Measuring the effect of neighbourhood renewal on local people.
The handbook addresses questions such as ‘whether and what to measure’. It also looks at the benefits and pitfalls of involving local people. The handbook ...
Social Accounting and Audit - The Manual
By John Pearce, Alan Kay (Social Audit Network) published in 2005 This Manual is aimed at organisations that wish to measure their performance and impacts. The manual ...
The Evidence Guide
The Evidence guide pack contains five modules: Using research evidence in practice: an introduction Locating research evidence in five steps Appraising and ...
The Power of Proof - An Evaluation Primer
This is an online resource from the USA based Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium. It coers the whole process of evaluation from planning to reporting. It uses examples from tobacco control ...
The Program Manager's Guide to Evaluation
This is a very clearly written guide to the evaluation process, covering self evaluation and external evaluation. It takes the reader through the whole process and includes lots of useful ...
The Programme Managers Guide to Evaluation (Children's Services)
Nine chapters cover what, why and how to evaluate and learn from evaluation. By US Department of Health & Human Services (December 2003) Chapter 1 looks at ...
The W.K Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook
This handbook provides a fairly in-depth look at some basic questions, such as the limitations of scientific methods in evaluation. One of the key aims of evaluation for the Kellogg ...
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 ...
Thematic Guides and resources
Analyzing Outcome Information: getting the most from data
This guide, the fifth in the Urban Institute's series on outcome management for non-profit organizations, describes steps that nonprofit organizations can take in performing this ...
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