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Recommended Actions
Chapter 1 – Planning for Evaluation:
Getting Started
Identify Evaluation Objectives –
Recommended Actions
- Determine the SHSP
process and performance areas to evaluate.
- Identify the resources needed to conduct the
evaluation.
- Develop evaluation objectives for assessing
the SHSP
process.
- Develop evaluation objectives for assessing
SHSP
performance (outputs and outcomes).
- Circulate the objectives and resource requirements
among SHSP
decision-makers to obtain their support.
Review Methods for Data Collection and Management –
Recommended Actions
- Review the existing data collection and management
methods to determine the following:
- Quality data are available to track progress
and answer the evaluation questions;
- Resources are available to collect data
not currently available; and
- Objectives for which no evaluation data
are available are reconsidered or modified.
- Review the tracking mechanism(s) in place
to determine:
- Where the information can be obtained
and what is captured (e.g., implementation
status of SHSP
strategies and actions, number and rates
of fatalities and serious injuries, etc.).
- If information needed for the evaluation
is not formally tracked, can a mechanism
be put in place or information gathered
using an alternative method?
Determine How to Measure Progress –
Recommended Actions
- Review the existing SHSP
performance measures and categorize them as
(in descending order of importance):
- Primary outcome;
- Secondary outcome;
- Self reporting;
- Attitudinal;
- Awareness; or
- Activity level.
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