Evaluation can be useful, exciting and an important knowledge development tool. This evaluation guide has been developed to help make all these things happen. The goal of this evaluation guide is to provide easy-to-use, comprehensive framework for project evaluation. This framework can be used to strengthen evaluation skills and knowledge to assist in the development and implementation of effective project evaluations.
Survey Practice is an online journal from the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). The focus of this journal is on providing high quality information on issues in survey research and public opinion to AAPOR members and non-members. The journal's Web site also offers information on editorial procedures and detailed guidelines for authors. The articles in Survey Practice aim at sharing information on practical survey methods and on conditions affecting survey research. The published articles are short and written in a way that is adequate for survey researchers as well as for an informed public. Even though Survey Practice is not a peer reviewed journal, the editorial board ensures that the articles meet high quality standards. The journal's content includes articles on different survey procedures which were successful or not, the conditions in the field, and information on public opinion data. Consequently, Survey Practice offers a variety of topics such as "best practices in survey management, emerging quantitative and qualitative methods, optimal calling strategies, response rates, Internet access, cell phone use," and more.
Survey Research Methods is the official journal of The European Survey Research Association (ESRA). It aims to be a high quality scientific publication that will be of interest to researchers in all disciplines involved in the design, implementation and analysis of surveys. The journal publishes articles in English which discuss methodological issues related to survey research. Two types of papers are in-scope: 1. Papers discussing methodological issues in substantive research using survey data; 2. Papers that discuss methodological issues that are more or less independent of the specific field of substantive research. Topics of particular interest include survey design, sample design, question and questionnaire design, data collection, nonresponse, data capture, data processing, coding and editing, measurement errors, imputation, weighting and survey data analysis methods. All full texts are available free for download. Survey Research Methods is not an evaluation journal, but articles about methods relevant for the field of evaluation are welcome if they fit to the global topic of the journal. Published four times per annum.
The Independent Evaluators' Webring, a world-wide community of independent evaluators and small-size evaluation consulting firms, offers a searchable international database of evaluators.
Good program evaluations assess program performance, measure impacts on families and communities, and document program successes. With this information, programs are able to direct limited resources to where they are most needed and most effective in their communities. To help programs fulfill these goals, the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families (ACYF) has developed THE PROGRAM MANAGER'S GUIDE TO EVALUATION. The Guide explains program evaluation -what it is, how to understand it, and how to do it. It answers your questions about evaluation and explains how to use evaluation to improve programs and benefit staff and families.
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Mod_Survey is a free, generic program that allows you to reasonably easy write web-based questionnaires using a definition language looking quite a lot like the language you would use to write a normal home page. It is used as a content-handler for "survey" files, or in other words for files containing questionnaires described in an XML-based tag notation.
