Description: "This toolkit...is targeted primarily at those grantees who will be working with an external evaluator or conducting their own rigorous internal evaluations, but we believe anyone who is seeking to design a useful evaluation can benefit from it."

Covers basic principles of questionnaire construction as well tips for effective wording and questionnaire format.

From UT Austin, this Web site provides guidance in assessing students, assessing teaching, assessing technology, and program evaluation. Includes a glossary and bibliography.

An online periodical published by the Harvard Family Research Project which addresses current issues facing program evaluators of all levels, with articles written by the most prominent evaluators in the field.

Advocates that evaluation should be "supportive and responsive to projects, rather than become an end in itself." Part II "Blueprint for Conducting Project-Level Evaluation" is a useful resource for those new to program evaluation.

National Science Foundation (NSF) guide that advocates following a process: identifying question(s) to be addressed; selecting measurement instruments and data sources, a design, and a sample; and developing an analysis plan and a timeline for implementation. Includes four evaluation case studies (2 formative, 2 summative).

Contains rubrics, flowcharts, and other guidance in combining values and criteria to answer key evaluation questions

Provides an authoritative overview of concepts, ethics, approaches and models, organizations, qualitative and quantitative methods. Available in Perkins Library at Duke in the Reference collection.

Learning Technology Dissemination Initiative Evaluation Cookbook published by Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh

Written for educators designing and conducing evaluations of learning. How to tell a compelling story about early impact of a project based on "'emerging evidence' of both learning gains and fundamental changes to the classroom environment, and pointing to areas for ongoing program improvement". Describes 8-step process of educational evaluation with examples for each step. Contains annotated references.