Reporting results
After collecting and analyzing the data, the last crucial step is summarizing, using and sharing your findings. This can be done in a variety of ways: written up in brief or final evaluation reports, narrated in presentations, given out in fact sheets or information packets, shown in exhibits or displays, or posted to websites and social media. It all depends on how the data is meant to be used and who it is meant to inform. So be creative in getting your message across!
Writing Up Activity Summaries
Guidelines
- What to Include in Activity Summaries
- Progress Reporting in OTIS
- Writing Evaluation Activities in Progress Reports (50:24)
Documenting Organizational Progress
- Dear Diary: How to document organizational progress (1:02:11)
- KII video (06:54)
- After Action Reviews
- After Action Reviews
- Evaluator Questions for LLA Staff
- Monthly Evaluation Tool
- Staff Diary Tool
Evaluation Activity Summaries
- Focus Groups
- KIIs with Survey-type Questions
- Policy Record
- Retail Evaluation Activities
- Social Media Activities
Templates
Tell Your Story (TYS): Writing Useful Evaluation Reports
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Gathering Data for Report Writing
TYS Guidelines for Preparing Useful Evaluation Reports --
Includes:
- instructions for writing final and brief evaluation reports
- sample final and brief evaluation reports
- rubric for scoring final evaluation reports
- guidelines for submitting reports
- sample report highlights and executive summary
TYS Trainings and Resources
- Tell Your Story 3.0 Training Webinar Part 1 (1:19:22)
- Tell Your Story 3.0 Training Webinar Part 2 (1:19:56)
- Training Webinar Slides
- Tell Your Story 3.0 Training Packet 1
- Tell Your Story 3.0 Training Packet 2
- April 20, 2017 Webinar: Changing How to Tell Your Story (45:47)
- FER Writing the Abstract Conclusion and Recommendations
TYS Data Visualization
- Table of Key Evaluation Activities Template
- Timeline of Key Activities Template
- Simple Bar Graph without Chart Junk: Instructions Worksheet Demo (18:56)
- Overlapping Bar Chart: Instructions Worksheet Demo
- Slopegraph: Instructions Worksheet Demo (19:23)
Final Evaluation Report Scores and Feedback
Old Resources from the Old Guidelines
- Tips for Writing Quality of Final Evaluation Reports
- Q & A about Writing Final Evaluation Reports (1:05:43)
- Writing Brief Evaluation Reports (59:47)
- Loading Final Evaluation Reports into OTIS (slideshow)