Doctoral Social Work Research: Program Evaluation

Information on practitioner-researcher partnerships, performance measures, logic models, program evaluation, and other important information to devise solutions to improve the quality, quantity, and equity of criminal justice and public safety services.

The Framework for Evaluation in Public Health[1] guides public health professionals in their use of program evaluation. It is a practical, nonprescriptive tool, designed to summarize and organize essential elements of program evaluation.

Use the following resources to identify evaluation strategies, make an economic case for child abuse prevention, and find results of prevention program evaluations.

The American Evaluation Association exists to contribute to the common good by improving evaluation theory, practice, and methods; increasing evaluation use promoting evaluation as a profession; and supporting the contribution of evaluation to the theory and knowledge about effective human action and equitable systems and markets.

Use these resources to test interventions, adjust services to best meet community needs, and collect data to support a program's work.

BetterEvaluation is a not-for-profit organization and registered charity that operates globally. Its mission is to work collaboratively with the global community to create, share and support use of knowledge about how to better plan, manage, conduct and use evaluation.

The Evaluation Unit in CDC’s Program Performance and Evaluation Office (PPEO) sets standards and expectations for agency-wide evaluation;
delivers tools, technical assistance and resources to enhance evaluation efforts; and
provides support for evaluation capacity-building across CDC programs.

From the Child Welfare Information Gateway, the following resources help administrators and program managers design and conduct evaluations and to use evaluation findings to improve services and benefit staff and the families they serve.

Foundation Center‘s mission is to connect nonprofits and funders to the knowledge they need to do their jobs better and to deepen the impact of their efforts.