Evaluation Web Sites
General Sites
Free Resources for Program Evaluation and Social Research Methods
Compiled by Gene Shackman, Ph.D.
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods
This page provides an extensive list of free resources for methods in evaluation and social research. The focus is on "how-to" do evaluation research and the methods used: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods
The American Evaluation Association
http://www.eval.org/
The Home Page of the American Evaluation Association, an international professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation.
The Evaluation Center
http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/
The Evaluation Center, located at Western Michigan University, is a research and development unit that provides national and international leadership for advancing the theory and practice of evaluation, as applied to education and human services.
The American Evaluation Association http://www.stanford.edu/~davidf/empowermentevaluation.html
The American Evaluation Association has a Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation topical interest group that is dedicated to the exploration and refinement of collaborative, participatory, and empowerment approaches to evaluation.
The Grantmakers Evaluation Network (GEN)
http://hogg1.lac.utexas.edu/Gen/
The Grantmakers Evaluation Network (GEN) is an affinity group of the Council on Foundations. The purpose of GEN is to promote the development and growth of evaluation in philanthropy. GEN will seek to leverage, expand, and diversify the sources of philanthropic dollars for evaluation and to build the capacity of members and others in its pursuit.
International Sites
German Center of Evaluation (in German)http://www.uni-koeln.de/ew-fak/Wiso/
The Home Page for the German Center of Evaluation (in German), at the University of Cologne. It includes the German Translation of The Program Evaluation Standards of the American Evaluation Society.
Mental Health
The Center for Mental Health Policy
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/VIPPS/CMHP/
The Center for Mental Health Policy is housed in the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies of Vanderbilt University, and focuses on child, adolescent and family mental health services research. Their page has links to other mental health related sites.
HIV/AIDS
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/prevention/evaluating_programs/
Maintained by the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) at the University of California San Francisco (http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/index.html), this site provides tools to help with planning, designing and implementing evaluations for HIV prevention programs.
The Measurement Group
http://www.tmg-web.com/edc.htm
The Measurement Group, in collaboration with PROTOTYPES, has been funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration to provide help on evaluation and dissemination activities to 27 national demonstration programs on HIV/AIDS treatment services. This Evaluation and Dissemination Center is a part of HRSA's activities to develop innovative models for treating HIV/AIDS.