The evaluation process

Evaluation is a continuous process that tends to proceed through cycles of evaluation, revision, and reevaluation.

Here are the stages of the evaluation process:

• Preliminary evaluation
• Ongoing evaluation (Formative evaluation)

• Final evaluation (Summative evaluation)

Each stage involves the following tasks:

• Deciding what needs to be evaluated
• Carrying out the evaluation
• Collecting evaluation data
• Analyzing the data
• Reporting the outcome
• Revising as necessary
• Evaluating the revised program or activity

• Process module: The evaluation process
• In overview module: Evaluation
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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