Resource Links

Youth Specific

• After-School Initiative’s Toolkit for Evaluating Positive Youth Development - Developed by the Colorado Trust, this compilation of evaluation questions can be administered in after-school programs to assess program quality and the following positive youth development outcomes: academic success, arts and recreation, community involvement, cultural competency, life skills, positive life choices, positive core values and sense of self.
• Assessing Outcomes in Child and Youth Programs: A Practical Handbook (Sabatelli, Anderson, LaMotte, 2005). Covers steps in program evaluation; Chapter 4 lists outcome categories related to positive youth dev elopement;  Appendix D includes various measurement scales with descriptions and examples for youth programs.
• Compendium of Assessment and Research Tools (CART) - A database that provides information on instruments that measure attributes associated with youth development programs. CART includes descriptions of research instruments, tools, rubrics, and guides and is intended to assist those who have an interest in studying the effectiveness of service-learning, safe and drug-free schools and communities, and other school-based youth development activities.
• National 4-H Learning Priorities: Evaluating for Impact, Educational Content for Professional Development.  As part of the national 4-H Learning Priorities project, this document lays out the scope of nature of professional development in evaluation for the 4-H Youth Development professional. 
• Oregon 4-H Evaluation and research Studies – Link to external site
• Research and Evaluation Instruments
• Oregon 4-H Evaluation and Research Studies
• CYFERNET.  Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network.  This full service evaluation web site has tools, examples, online training and extensive resources.

General Resources

• Program Development and Evaluation
• Evaluation documents http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/evaluation/evaldocs.html
• Quick Tips http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/resources/quicktipsnumerical.html
• Building Capacity in Evaluating Outcomes: A UW-Extension teaching and facilitating resource for community-based programs and organizations provides 93 activities and materials for practitioners working in and with community-based programs to use in building the capacity of individuals, groups, and organizations in evaluating outcomes. It provides, in one place, a complete set of practical resources that can be readily used or modified when working with community-based programs
• Ellen Taylor Powell's Evaluation Blog - UW-Extension's Distinguished Evaluation Specialists posts regular evaluation tips and updates and answers questions--UW-Extension log-in required.
• Penn State Evaluation web site.  Link to many examples and Tipsheets for Extension program evaluation http://extension.psu.edu/evaluation/category.html
• Ohio State Extension.  A web portal with extensive Extension relevant evaluation materials.  Create a login and password and gain access to many valuable resources covering all aspects of evaluation http://sammie.osu.edu/
• American Evaluation Association  - the professional association of evaluation in the US; link on the Resources tab to explore a wealth of evaluation topics and materials http://www.eval.org/
• Journal of Extension  - many articles reporting evaluation results and methodologies from Extension colleagues around the nation http://www.joe.org/
• Social Research Methods – A comprehensive website with lots of resources and links to other locations dealing with sampling, measurement, design, methods and data analysis. Professor Bill Trochim, Cornell University http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/
• Impact and Value: Telling Your Program’s Story (52 pages, 585 KB) – Link to this document for practical examples and ways of writing success stories as suggested by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  http://www.cdc.gov/oralHealth/publications/library/pdf/success_story_workbook.pdf

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