ESS principles for good evaluation
These evaluation principles are the distillation of ESS’s 17 years’ experience.
Results for: ESS Support Guides
ESS Support Guide 1a Setting outcomes
This guide helps you work out what your outcomes are and how to write them.
ESS Support Guide 1b Working out what to measure (Setting indicators for your outcomes)
This guide explains ways to develop and use indicators to help you measure your outcomes.
ESS Support Guide 1c – Developing a Logic Model
This is a practical guide that focuses on how you put together a basic logic model to help you think about your aims, outcomes and activities.
ESS Support Guide 2a Designing evidence collection methods
This guide covers things to think about when designing a suitable evaluation method for the evidence you want to collect.
ESS Support Guide 2b Storing Evidence
This guide looks at how to store the information you need to use in evaluation.
ESS Support Guide 3a – Analysing information for evaluation
This guide covers how you can analyse and make sense of the information you have gathered through evaluation so that you can write reports.
ESS Support Guide 3b: Report writing
This guide helps you think about how to turn your evaluation information into a report for funders and others.
ESS Support Guide 3c – Case studies
This guide looks at how you can use case studies to illustrate the impact of your work. Case studies not only help to bring your reports to life, but they can be used in a variety of other ways depending on the audience and purpose.
ESS Support Guide 4.1: Using what you learn from evaluation
This support guide explains the many different ways you can use evaluation for example to get better at what you do, to engage service users, or to secure funding.
