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Positive Learning Climates KnowledgeBase

This KnowledgeBase archive includes content and external links that were accurate and relevant as of September 30, 2019.

The Positive Learning Climates KnowledgeBase is an online resource to aid educators in nurturing school climates conducive to learning. It is organized around five elements aimed at developing a positive learning climate.

Task 1: Create and Execute Evaluation Plan

Guideline: Evaluation addresses whether a strategy or intervention has accomplished what it set out to do and in the way it was intended. Evaluation provides an opportunity for improvement and mid course adjustments. It enables the school's work team to assess the effectiveness of their efforts. There should be a method of evaluation associated with each selected strategy.

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Checklists

Critical Questions

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook includes a list of five questions the foundation suggests are critical for all evaluation plans to consider over the life cycle of a project.

Different Formats for Different Audiences

This document lists a number of different types of reports and suggests appropriate audiences for each report.

Possible Project-Level Evaluation Activities

This worksheet from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook lists possible evaluation activities for each project stage from planning to policy.

Tools

Evaluation Budget

This worksheet from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook is intended to help project planners develop a budget for project evaluation.

Alternate format: PDF

Guidelines

Data Collection Considerations

This resource from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Evaluation Handbook provides a list of things to consider when deciding upon data collection methods and instruments.

Program Evaluation Standards

This link is to program evaluation standards published by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation.

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Practical Tips

Evaluation Tips

This document contains tips for evaluators from designing the evaluation to reporting findings.

References

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Choosing Evaluators

This Community Toolbox article discusses what is important when looking for an evaluator, whether the person selected is a paid professional, a volunteer, or someone from within the organization.

The Program Manager's Guide to Evaluation

This guide reviews the basic elements of the evaluation process. Though written to fulfill program goals of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, it may be useful as a basic primer on evaluation.

Using Logic Models to Bring Together Planning, Evaluation, and Action

This link is to the publication Using Logic Models to Bring Together Planning, Evaluation, and Action.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook

This handbook provides a model for program evaluation developed by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.

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