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Evaluation Checklists

An evaluation checklist distills and clarifies relevant elements of practitioner experience, theory, principles, and research to support evaluators in their work.
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The Evaluation Center
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5237 USA
(269) 387-5895

Evaluation Task Areas

Plan and manage the use of resources involved in conducting an evaluation, including people, time and money.

Identify stakeholders who should be informed about and involved in the evaluation and engage them accordingly in the evaluation.

Identify the key characteristics of the program being evaluated and tailor the evaluation activities to the conditions in which the program operates.

Draw on established evaluation approaches, theories, and models to guide the evaluation process.

Obtain and describe data to generate credible findings.

Combine findings from data sources and use agreed-upon procedures and values to reach conclusions and judgments about the program.

Criteria for evaluating specific types of programs:

Describe and communicate the evaluation’s processes and results in a way that encourages understanding and use of results by stakeholders.

Assess the quality of the evaluation.

Crediting use of the checklists

This website should be credited when any of the site’s checklists are referred to in any written material. For example:  

Patton, M. Q. (2002). Utilization-focused evaluation checklist. https://wmich.edu/evaluation/checklists.

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