Evaluation Purpose and Partners
Describing the Intervention
Evaluation Design
Methodology and Data Collection
Data Analysis
Reporting and Dissemination
Near the end of your food preparation steps, you will also pay attention to cues that your snack or meal is ready to serve (e.g., whether the food has had sufficient time to cook or bake). Similarly, you will want to review and compare your analysis results to standards in the field as part of interpreting your findings.
Patterns in your data may be related to observed relationships among independent and dependent variables, trends for different subpopulations within the overall population, or extraneous variables that alter anticipated relationships of independent and dependent variables.
As noted in previous sections, indicators are used to quantify and compare data across settings and populations.
Provides general guidance on indicators.
Several national and international standards are available to guide this process; some already depict numeric indicators and current standards:
- Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicators for Injury and Violence,
- National Association of County and City Health Officials and Safe States Alliance,
- Smart Growth America’s “Dangerous by Design”
Others provide descriptions or recommendations for indicators and standards:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
- American Public Health Association,
- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and Safe States Alliance,
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Public Health Law Research,
- World Health Organization
Your indicators and standards are used to judge and communicate intervention success. For instance, if the intervention exceeded or met the standards, these findings can be used to advocate for long-term investment of personnel time and other resources into the intervention to increase its sustainability.
Place your findings in a table to connect indicators and standards from the field to your findings and judge the effectiveness of your intervention. These judgments will inform the content for your dissemination efforts.
