Over the last five weeks you have explored the steps outlined in the CDC’s Developing an Effective Evaluation Report: Setting the course for effective program evaluation. Therefore, this week will focus on integrating and combining all the knowledge gained in this course to create a final evaluation report. A final evaluation report is needed to relay information from the evaluation to program staff, stakeholders, and funders to support program improvement and decision making. Keep in mind that the final evaluation report is only one communication method for conveying evaluation results.
To give you an idea of how your report should look the following link provides an example of a full evaluation report: http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/downloads/EvaluationofStateNPAOPlans.pdf (Links to an external site.).
Final Evaluation Report
Your final evaluation report will be a 13-18 page paper encompassing the following sections:
- Title page
- Executive summary
- Intended use and users
- Program description
- Evaluation focus (a fully complete logic model must be included)
- Data sources and methods
- Results, conclusions, and interpretation
- Use, dissemination, and sharing plan (a fully complete communication plan table must be included)
- Tools for clarity
Your evaluation report must include a table of contents, list of tables, charts and figures, and references. Ensure that your appendices are useful for full-size program logic models, models developed through the evaluation, the historical background and success stories.
You are encouraged to use the following template to help you complete your final evaluation report:
Final Program Evaluation Template 
Download Final Program Evaluation Template
Your paper must adhere to APA formatting rules and must use a minimum of 10 scholarly sources to support the information presented. You are encouraged to visit the Writing Center and Library for assistance with identifying and using information from scholarly sources and avoiding plagiarism.
Your paper must be in a Word document (no PDF files or other formats will be accepted) and uploaded to Waypoint for grading.
Final Evaluation Presentation
After completing your final evaluation report you will now focus on presenting your findings to the stakeholders. This presentation will be structured as is common in professional meetings. This means that you should speak for 8-10 minutes to illustrate key points. The detail and substance for those points should be generated through your speaking and elaborations.
Keep in mind that you will use a screencast program (Jing (Links to an external site.), Screencast-O-Matic (Links to an external site.), etc.) to create your video presentation. Creative Commons and Flickr are great websites for open source images. Remember to cite all images taken from external sources.
Please see http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/powerpoint.html (Links to an external site.) for general tips on effective presentations.
NOTE: You must copy and paste the link to your video in a Word document and upload the Word Document to Waypoint for grading.
Ensure that your video is NOT private. If your video is private it will not be available for viewing and will not allow for it to be graded.
Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
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