New Tools to Conduct Better Evaluations: Westat Provides Products on Evaluation Design

Westat has released 2 documents to help grantees for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) conduct better evaluations. The briefs were developed under the Center to Improve Program and Project Performance (CIPP). The publications are available on the IDEAs That Work website.

Linking Expectations to Evaluations: Using Your Logic Model to Create Your Evaluation Plan helps grantees align their evaluation plans and logic models.
Making Project Measures Meaningful: Quality, Relevance, Usefulness, and Beyond helps grantees develop performance measures that move beyond quality, relevance, and usefulness and focusing on other types of outcomes.