This page is about Final Evaluation Reports (FERs) specifically. For general report writing resources, please see Report Results.
In California Tobacco Control, all primary policy objectives require a Final Evaluation Report at the end of the contract period. All non-primary objectives require a Brief Evaluation Report according to the specifications of Tell Your Story.
Contact TCEC for more info about the requirements for writing Brief and Final Evaluation Reports.
Tell Your Story (TYS): Writing Useful Evaluation Reports
Gathering Data for Report Writing
- Outline the information you want to include in your FER with TCEC's FER Pre-Writing Worksheet
- NEW! FER Pre-Writing Workbook (PDF)
- Ready, Set, FER! Steps to Take Now for Evaluation Reporting (57:48)
- FERs, BERs, and Interim Reports? Oh My!
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
- Guidelines and Instructions for Submitting
- Highlights Sample
- Scoring Rubric
TYS Data Visualization
- Table of Key Evaluation Activities Template
- Timeline of Key Activities Template
- Table of Key Informant Interview Results Template
- Bar Graph without Chart Junk: Instructions | Worksheet
- Overlapping Bar Chart: Instructions | Worksheet
- Slopegraph: Instructions | Worksheet | Demo (19:23)