The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project
Third Edition
Checklist for Methods Appropriate to Evaluate Research
☑ Have you determined if you will be conducting outcome or process evaluation?
☑ If process oriented:
- Have you determined if you will be exploring the perspectives of the providers, the recipients of the wider community?
- Have you thought through the pros and cons of interviews, focus groups, and small scale surveying?
☑ If outcome-oriented:
- Have you determined if you will be exploring the perspectives of the providers, the recipients of the wider community?
- Have you thought through the pros and cons of interviews, document analysis, focus groups, and small-scale surveying?
- Can you pull off an experimental/quasi-experimental comparison?
☑ Can you find a matched control group?
☑ Is baseline data available?