Designing an Implementation Evaluation: A Guide for Regional Partnership Grant Recipients
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Regional Partnership Grants National Cross-Site Evaluation
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children's Bureau
Key Findings
- Implementation evaluations can help RPG grant recipients understand how a funded program or set of services were delivered.
- Implementation evaluations typically focus on the process of program delivery and lessons learned rather than examining participant outcomes.
- Findings from implementation evaluations help interpret quantitative results of impact or outcome evaluations and help explain the reasons why an intervention was able to meet its intended goals.
The evaluation technical assistance brief provides a step-by-step guide for how RPG projects might plan for an implementation evaluation. The brief highlights four steps for designing an implementation evaluation: (1) developing research questions; (2) identifying data sources; (3) defining the timeline and approach for data collection; and (4) planning for analysis and reporting.
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