Literacy Basics - Community Literacy of Ontario

Suggested Resources

Here are just a few websites that you might find helpful if you’d like to know more about outcomes-based evaluation.

Carter McNamara: Basic Guide to Outcomes-Based Evaluation for Nonprofit Organizations with Very Limited Resources www.managementhelp.org/evaluatn/outcomes.htm

Carter McNamara: Basic Guide to Program Evaluation www.managementhelp.org/evaluatn/fnl_eval.htm
Scroll down for some detailed information about data collection tools, their advantages and challenges.

Huebner, Fiona. A Guide for the Development of Policies and Procedures in Ontario’s Community Literacy Agencies (Volume Two). Community Literacy of Ontario: 2000. www.nald.ca/clo/policies/guide2/cover.htm

Project Literacy Victoria. Outcome Measurement for a Community Literacy Program. 2001.
(this 92-page document provides information about outcomes-based evaluation and takes you step-by-step through the process they used)

Shapiro, Janet. Monitoring and Evaluation. Civicus: 2004. www.civicus.org/new/media/Monitoring%20and%20Evaluation.pdf
A 50-page “toolkit” to help organizations interested in evaluation.

Taylor-Powell, Ellen, Sara Steele and Mohammad Douglah. Planning a Program Evaluation. University of Wisconsin-Extension, 1996. http://learningstore.uwex.edu/Search.aspx?k=Planning%20a%20Program%20Evaluation
(includes a useful “Planning a Program Evaluation Worksheet”)

World Bank, The. Impact Evaluation.
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/
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AlphaPlus (http://alphaplus.ca) and NALD (www.nald.ca) both have many resources which you can find by searching their websites.

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