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  • Peer-assessment

    Peer assessment can provide additional benefits beyond self-assessment – in particular, the opportunity for peer learning through the review process.
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  • Cartoons

    Cartoon images can be used by evaluators to an understanding of program impact, scenes of program implementation, main findings or issues.
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  • One-Three-Twenty Five (1:3:25) Principle

    The 1:3:25 Principle is an evaluation report format with a one page outline of the main messages, a three page executive summary, and 25 pages that present the evaluation findings and methodology.
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  • Learning alliances

    Learning alliances involve a structured partnership between two or more organisations with the aim of working together to build and share knowledge around topics of mutual interest.
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  • Formal meeting processes

    Studies have demonstrated that attendance at meetings and conferences, planning discussions within the project related to use of the program evaluation, and participation in data collection foster feelings of evaluation involvement among st
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  • SWOT analysis

    The SWOT analysis is a strategic planning tool that encourages group or individual reflection on and assessment of the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
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  • Memos and journals for analysis

    Memos and journals are useful tools to support reflection, record-keeping, and rigour throughout qualitative data analysis.
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  • Graphic recording

    Graphic recording is the translation of conversations into images and text on large sheets of paper during meetings and events.
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  • Evaluation questions

    This site provides a step-by-step guide on how to identify appropriate questions for an evaluation.
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  • Flip charts

    Flip charts are large sheets of paper, usually positioned on a tripod, to be used with thick and differently coloured marking pens.
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  • Posters

    A good poster communicates your message clearly, quickly and succinctly.
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  • Powerpoint

    Structuring presentations with a series of powerpoint slides is now the most common way of presenting information to groups.
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  • Theatre

    There are several different ways of using theatre to communicate evaluation findings and engage intended users in responding to them.
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  • Standards, evaluative criteria and benchmarks

    Standards, evaluative criteria, or benchmarks refer to the criteria by which an evaluand will be judged during an evaluation.
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  • Social media

    Social media refers to a range of internet-based applications that support the creation and exchange of user-generated content - including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn.
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  • Contractual agreement

    A formal contract is needed to engage an external evaluator and a written agreement covering similar issues can also be used to document agreements about an internal evaluator.
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  • Explaining

    ‘Explaining’ involves using qualitative work to understand unanticipated results from quantitative data.  
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  • Examining

    ‘Examining’ refers to generating hypotheses from qualitative work to be tested through the quantitative approach.
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  • Enriching

    ‘Enriching’ is achieved by using qualitative work to identify issues or obtain information on variables not obtained by quantitative surveys. 
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  • Integrated design

    Integrated Design is an approach to mixed options evaluation where qualitative and quantitative data are integrated into an overall design.  
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  • Component design

    Component design is an approach to mixed methods evaluation that conducts qualitative components of the evaluation separately to quantitative components and then combines the data at the time of report writing.  
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  • Systematic review

    A systematic review is an approach to synthesising evidence from multiple studies.
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  • Outcomes hierarchy

    An outcomes hierarchy shows all the outcomes (from short-term to longer-term) required to bring about the ultimate goal of an intervention.  
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  • Negative programme theory

    Most programme theories, logic models and theories of change show how an intervention is expected to contribute to positive impacts; Negative programme theory, a technique developed by Carol Weiss, shows how it might produce negative impact
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  • Mural

    A mural, a large drawing on the wall, can be used to collect data from a group of people about the current situation, their experiences using a service, or their perspectives on the outcomes from a project.
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  • Projective techniques

    Projective techniques, originally developed for use in psychology, can be used in an evaluation to provide a prompt for interviews.
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  • Matched Comparisons

    When using Matched Comparisons, participants (individuals, organizations or communities) are each matched with a non-participant on variables that are thought to be relevant which can be difficult to adequately match on all relevant cr
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  • Rich pictures

    A rich picture is a way to explore, acknowledge and define a situation and express it through diagrams to create a preliminary mental model and can help to open discussion and come to a broad, shared understanding of a situation.
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  • Dotmocracy

    Dotmocracy is an established facilitation method for collecting and recognizing levels of agreement on written statements among a large number of people.
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  • Instrumental variables

    This method is used to estimate the causal effect of variables on an intervention.
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  • Institutional review board

    Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) are committees that are set up by organizations to review the technical and ethical dimensions of a research or evaluation project. 
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  • Images

    Written reports and presentations should always include images. Beyond just charts and graphs, photographs or drawings increase the relevancy of the material to the audience and make the report more engaging.
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