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PROGRAM EVALUATION GUIDE Once an organization has identified the social capital elements in its programs and specified pathways through which its activities contribute to social capital formation, it can formulate plans to evaluate its social capital impact. Somewhat artificially, we break down this process into steps 4 and 5: Step 4 involves the basic design questions, such as the study's timeframe and the choice of study populations; Step 5 concerns the nuts and bolts of fielding a survey-based evaluation. You can also access a list of social capital survey questions intended to help organizations develop their own survey instruments. STEP 4: Designing the Evaluation STEP 5: Conducting an Evaluation There are a number of concrete issues that an organization fielding an evaluation still needs to resolve. This section considers five key practical questions listed below. Together with the earlier "Whom to Study?" discussion, the answers to these questions largely determine the overall evaluation cost. Of course, if the resulting cost is too high, an organization may have to scale back, compromising on these four issues until the project is affordable. At that point, the organization will have to ensure that the scaled-down evaluation will still be worthwhile.
INTERVIEW FORMATS (collapse)
There are at least six basic formats, although combinations are also possible:
Each of these models has advantages and disadvantages. [If you are undecided about what approach you will take and want to read about the relative strengths and weaknesses of these approaches, click here.]
HOW MANY CASES? (expand)
MAKING SURE SAMPLES ARE RANDOM (AND NON-RESPONSE ERROR) (expand)
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