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

• Evaluation Budget Development by Jerry Horn
• Evaluation Contracts by Daniel Stufflebeam
• Evaluation Plans and Operations by Daniel Stufflebeam
• Negotiating Agreements by Robert Stake

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

• Building Evaluation Capacity by Boris Volkov and Jean King
• Institutionalizing Evaluation by Daniel Stufflebeam

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

•  Checklist of Key Considerations for Development of Program Logic Models by Goldie MacDonald

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

• CIPP Evaluation Model by Daniel Stufflebeam
• Constructivist (a.k.a. Fourth-Generation) Evaluation by Egon Guba and Yvonna Lincoln
• Deliberative Democratic Evaluation by Ernest R. House and Kenneth R. Howe
• Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health: A Checklist of Steps and Standards by Goldie MacDonald
• Cadre pour l’évaluation du programme dans le domaine de la santé publique: Liste de contrôle des étapes et des normes by Goldie MacDonald
• Marco para el Programa de Evaluación en Salud Pública: Una lista de verificación de pasos y estándares by Goldie MacDonald
• Qualitative Evaluation by Michael Quinn Patton
• Utilization-Focused Evaluation by Michael Quinn Patton
• Key Evaluation Checklist by Michael Scriven (originally created and published outside of the Checklists Project) 
  

Determine what aspects of the program the evaluation will focus on, and make decisions about how to structure the inquiry to serve intended purposes.

• Criteria for Selection of High-Performing Indicators: A Checklist to Inform Monitoring and Evaluation by Goldie MacDonald

• Critères de sélection d’indicateurs de haute performance: Liste de contrôle destinée à rendre compte du suivi et de l’évaluation by Goldie MacDonald

• Criterios de selección de los indicadores de alto rendimiento: Lista de verificación para brindar información sobre el monitoreo y la evaluación by Goldie MacDonald

• Evaluation Design by Daniel Stufflebeam

• Evaluation Questions Checklist for Program Evaluation by Lori Wingate and Daniela Schroeter

Obtain and describe data to generate credible findings.

• NEW! Effective Communication Strategies for Interviews and Focus Groups by Ouen Hunter and Jeffrey Hillman

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

• General Values and Criteria by Daniel Stufflebeam

Criteria for evaluating specific types of programs:

• Evaluating Credentialing Testing Programs by Gregory J. Cizek, Amy A. Germuth, Audra E. Kosh, and Lorrie A. Schmid—Second Edition

• Evaluating K-12 Assessment Programs by Gregory Cizek, Lorrie A. Schmid and Amy A. Germuth—Second Edition

• Institutionalization of Technology in Schools by Catherine Awsumb Nelson, Jennifer Post, and Bill Bickel

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

• Checklist for Evaluation Recommendations by Osvaldo Feinstein

• Checklist for Program Evaluation Report Content by Kelly N. Robertson and Lori A. Wingate

• Evaluation Feedback Workshops by Arlen Gullickson and Daniel Stufflebeam

• Evaluation Reports by Gary Miron

• Making Evaluation Meaningful to All Education Stakeholders by Paula Gangopadhyay

Assess the quality of the evaluation.

• Checklist of The Program Evaluation Standards Statements by Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation