College of Social Work

Related Links

STEP-BY-STEP MANUALS

Document	Developer
Evaluation Cookbook	Learning Technology Dissemination Initiative
Evaluation Handbook	W.K. Kellogg Foundation
User-friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation	National Science Foundation

LOGIC MODEL RESOURCES

Developing a Logic Model, Theory of Change, or Strategy that Details the Intermediate Outcomes Or Milestones Required to Achieve the Longer-term Outcomes (p. 13-18)	United Way
Everything You Wanted to Know About Logic Models But Were Afraid to Ask	Connie C. Schmitz and Beverly A. Parsons
Learning from Logic Models: An Example of a Family/School Partnership Program	Harvard Family Research Project
Logic Model: Your Map and Model of Action Extension (in Section 2 of Evaluating Collaboratives)	University of Wisconsin Cooperative
Logic Model Excerpt: The Program Evaluation Tool Kit	Ontario Ministry of Health
Program Logic: An Adaptable Tool for Designing And Evaluating Programs	Sue Funnell

PLANNING AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT TOOLS

Electronic Roadmap for Evaluation	Bureau of Justice Assistance
Healthy People 2010 Toolkit: A Field Guide to Health Planning	Public Health Foundation

REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS: GENERAL

Document	Developer
A Consumer’s Guide to Taking Charge of Health Information	Health Insight
Achieving and Measuring Community Outcomes: Challenges, Issues, Some Approaches	United Way
Assessing Fundamental Science	National Science Foundation
Building a Successful Prevention Program	Western Center for the Application of Western Technologies
Community Level Indicators for Understanding Health and Human Services Issues	DHHS
Community Status Reports and Targeted Community Interventions: Drawing a Distinction	United Way
Evaluating Comprehensive Community Change	Anne E. Casey Foundation
Evaluation Activities in Organizations	Free Management Library
Evaluation Checklist Project	Western Michigan University
Health Promotion Evaluation: Recommendations To Policy-Makers	WHO European Working Group on Health Promotion Evaluation
High-Performance Organizations: Linking Evaluation and Effectiveness	Grantmakers Evaluation Network
Leaning What Works: Evaluating Complex Social Interventions	Brookings Institute and Harvard University
Leadership in Public Health: Five Critical Areas for the 21st Century	William L. Roper
New Approaches to Evaluating Community nitiatives, Vol 1: Concepts, Methods and Contexts	Aspen Institute
Online Resource Library	United Way
Poverty in Utah 2003Annual Report on Poverty,Economic Insecurity, and Work	Utah Issues.org

Professional Associations, Organizations.

The American Evaluation Association (AEA). This is my professional group, and a finer cadre you would be hard-pressed to find.
http://www.eval.org

The American Educational Research Association
http://www.aera.net/

American Society for Public Administration
http://www.aspanet.org/scriptcontent/index.cfm

Justice, Research, and Statistics Association
http://www.jrsa.org

American Statistical Association
http://www.amstat.org

Statistics—Learning/using statistics/significance testing.

Statistics—learning/using statistics. Significance testing.
The Electronic Statistics Textbook for terms and general statistical concepts.
http://www.statsoft.com

The Electronic Statistics Textbook for terms and general statistical concepts.
http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html

http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/glosfra.html

Commentaries on Significance Testing. Compiled by David F. Parkhurst, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University.
http://www.indiana.edu/~stigtsts/

Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations. John Pezzullo.
http://statpages.org/

Statistical Methods in Psychology Journals: Guidelines and Explanations. American Psychological Association
http://www.apa.org/journals/amp/amp548594.html

Qualitative Analysis Related

EZ Text. The free CDC qualitative analysis software.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/software/ez-text.htm

Lesley College Program Evaluation and Research Group. The “Research Group” specializes in qualitative evaluation methods. Limited as a resource, but contains introductions to qualitative methods and practice.
http://www.lesley.edu/perg.htm

Atlas - a very popular qualitative analysis package. Demo available at the site.
http://www.atlasti.de/

Software, information technology, and systems for evaluation/research.

EZ Text. The free CDC qualitative analysis software.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/software/ez-text.htm

Qualitative Research in Information Systems (IS). “This section aims to provide qualitative researchers in IS—and those wanting to know how to do qualitative research—with useful information on the conduct, evaluation and publication of qualitative research.”
http://www.auckland.ac.nz/msis/isworld/

StatPac survey tools. There is a free version.
www.statpac.com

Philanthropy, Funding, Grants, and Evaluation.

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Conference 2000, summary. This is one of my favorite pieces. Describes and discusses the philanthropic landscape and the growing importance and necessity of professional evaluation.
http://www.geofunders.org/connect.aspx

W.K. Kellogg Evaluation Handbook.
www.wkkf.org/Pubs/Tools/Evaluation/Pub770.pdf

United Way’s Outcome Management Resource Network.
http://national.unitedway.org/outcomes/

Demography, mapping, and GIS in evaluation.

Children Youth and Family Education and Research Network (CIESIN) page on demographic resources.
http://www.ciesin.org/datasets/us-demog/us-demog-home.html

U.S. Census Bureau Home Page. Of course.
http://www.census.gov/

The American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work (ABE
http://www.abecsw.org/

Brooks/Cole - Wadsworth A publisher
http://www.wadsworth.com/helping_profs/

Clearinghouse on International Developments in Child, Youth and Family Policies
http://www.childpolicyintl.org/

Council on Social Work Education CSWE)
http://www.cswe.org/

Information for Practice (Subscription)
http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/

NASW
http://www.naswdc.org/default.html

NASW Code of Ethics
http://www.naswdc.org/pubs/code/

Association of Oncology Social Work
http://www.aosw.org/

Government Agencies
United States Department of Health & Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/

The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov

U.S. Census Bureau Subjects
http://www.census.gov/main/www/subjects.html