Evaluation is key at every stage of your project. It can be used to understand why a problem behavior is occurring, how it might be solved, and what reasons your target group might have for changing. It can also determine the success of your project, give ideas for how to improve your strategy, and help you understand what your intervention's outcomes mean. Because of these many uses and the detailed information that it can provide, thinking about evaluation is essential while developing and implementing the intervention project.
After completing this module, learners will be able to:
Outline research questions or hypotheses to guide intervention project evaluation strategies
Understand approaches to using qualitative and quantitative methods to data collection and analysis
Develop instruments to collect data on interventions and determine strategies to analyze this data