Transcript Lecture 8

EVAL 6000: Foundations
of Evaluation
Dr. Chris L. S. Coryn
Nick Saxton
Fall 2014
Agenda
• Budgeting evaluations
• Contracting evaluations
• Collecting evaluative information
Budgeting evaluations
General types of budgets
• Fixed price
– Only allows expenditures as ‘projected’
• Grants
– Unused funds typically not returned
• Cost-reimbursable
– Only ‘actual’ expenditures are billed
• ‘Other’ budget types
– See Table 20.5 on p. 492
Budgeting tasks
1. Ensure that evaluation design is sufficiently
detailed
2. Determine the type of budget agreement
3. Determine the needed level of budget detail
4. Determine pertinent cost factors
5. Determine line items
6. Group line items
7. Determine local contribution, if any
8. Computed all costs and charges
9. Determine costs associated with institutional
accountability
10.Clarify requirements for payment
Contracting evaluations
Contracting checklist
1. Basic considerations
2. Information
3. Analysis
4. Synthesis
5. Reports
6. Reporting safeguards
7. Communication protocol
8. Evaluation management
9. Client authority and responsibilities
10.Evaluation budget
11.Review and control of the evaluation
Collecting evaluative
information
Major considerations
• Gather only necessary information
– Documents, interviews, focus groups,
observations, site visits, surveys, etc.
• Determine (as possible) reliability
and validity of gathered information
• Conform to relevant legal standards
(e.g., human subjects)