Process evaluation verifies what the components of an intervention are and whether they’re implemented as intended. Process evaluation involves out if the program has all its parts, and if the parts are functioning as they are supposed to be functioning” (Patton, 1997). “…finding When conducting process evaluation, we ask questions like: What did we do? How much did we do? Did we do it as we had planned? How well did we do it? For additional resources and examples to help you plan for process evaluation, please see: Process evaluation plan (template) Data collection Person(s) method(s) Timing of Evaluation Indicator(s) Respondent(s) Data responsible for What method data question Things you can Who will provide Activities collection data collection will be used to collection measure to the information What do we in tool(s) measure the Who is …involved know you’ve needed? e.g., want to know When will implementing indicator? e.g., What specific responsible for implemented parent, child, about how we the data the initiative survey, tool will be ensuring the activities as clinician, teacher, implemented the be group, interview, used? data are intended program staff, etc. initiative? collected? document collected? review, etc. Outcome evaluation focuses on assessing the impact of an intervention - examining the extent to which you’ve achieved your outcome objectives. When conducting outcome evaluation, we ask questions like: What difference did this make? So what? Who is better off? How much so and in what ways?
Process evaluation verifies what the components of an intervention are and whether they’re implemented as intended. Process evaluation involves “…finding out if the program has all its parts, and if the parts are functioning as they are supposed to be functioning” (Patton, 1997). When conducting process evaluation, we ask questions like: What did we do? How much did we do? Did we do it as we had planned? How well did we do it? For additional resources and examples to help you plan for process evaluation, please see: Process evaluation plan (template) Evaluation question What do we want to know about how we implemented the initiative? Activities …involved in implementing the initiative Indicator(s) Things you can measure to know you’ve implemented activities as intended Data collection method(s) What method will be used to measure the indicator? e.g., survey, group, interview, document review, etc. Data collection tool(s) What specific tool will be used? Respondent(s) Who will provide the information needed? e.g., parent, child, clinician, teacher, program staff, etc. Person(s) responsible for data collection Who is responsible for ensuring the data are collected? Timing of data collection When will the data be collected? Outcome evaluation focuses on assessing the impact of an intervention - examining the extent to which you’ve achieved your outcome objectives. When conducting outcome evaluation, we ask questions like: What difference did this make? So what? Who is better off? How much so and in what ways?
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