Carter McNamara offers a document which provides guidance toward planning and implementing an evaluation process for for-profit or nonprofit programs - there are many kinds of evaluations that can be applied to programs, for example, goals-based, process-based, outcomes-based, etc.
jmde's mission: The news and thinking of the profession and discipline of evaluation in the world, for the world. jmde is a peer-reviewed online journal published in association with "The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Evaluation; The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University" and is open for new ideas in evaluation. ISSN: 1556-8180
William M.K. Trochim's page is an introduction to basic ideas, definitions, types, questions in evaluation. It is a part of the Research Methods Knowledge Base.
This site at the Evaluation Center of the Western Michigan University provides evaluation specialists and users with refereed checklists for designing, budgeting, contracting, staffing, managing, and assessing evaluations of programs, personnel, students, and other evaluands; collecting, analyzing, and reporting evaluation information; and determining merit, worth, and significance. Each checklist is a distillation of valuable lessons learned from practice. The site's purpose is to improve the quality and consistency of evaluations and enhance evaluation capacity through the promotion and use of high-quality checklists targeted to specific evaluation tasks and approaches.
G*Power 3 covers statistical power analyses for many different statistical tests of the * F test, * t test, * χ2-test and * z test families and some * exact tests. G*Power 3 offers five different types of statistical power analysis: * A priori (sample size N is computed as a function of power level 1-β, significance level α, and the to-be-detected population effect size) * Compromise (both α and 1-β are computed as functions of effect size, N, and an error probability ratio q = β/α) * Criterion (α and the associated decision criterion are computed as a function of 1-β, the effect size, and N) * Post-hoc (1-β is computed as a function of α, the population effect size, and N) * Sensitivity (population effect size is computed as a function of α, 1-β, and N) G*Power 3 provides improved effect size calculators and graphics options. It supports both a distribution-based and a design-based input mode. G*Power 3 is available for Mac OS X 10.4 and Windows XP/Vista. G*Power 3 is free.
