A.    Checklist for Methods Appropriate to Evaluative 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?

B.    Checklist for Managing Action Research

   Successfully managing action research will require:

• Facilitating rather than directing
• Managing the scope
• Ensuring rigor in methods
• Managing the pace
• Keeping momentum
• Managing people
• Acting ethically
• Needing a range of skills
• Ownership