CDC Evaluation Working Group Resources
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This resource provides basic background information on program evaluation and links to numerous manuals, tools and resources from other organizations.
Criteria for Evaluating School-based Approaches to Increasing Good Nutrition and Physical Activity
Action for Healthy Kids
“This report describes the methodology for developing the evaluation criteria, lists the actual criteria, and suggests incentives for encouraging the adoption of school-based approaches to increase children’s good nutrition and physical activity.”
Evaluating Community Programs and Initiatives, Community Toolbox
University of Kansas
Contains information on developing a plan for evaluation, methods for evaluation, and using evaluation to understand and improve the initiative. Go to Part J.
Health Age Questionnaire
Here
is a questionnaire that can help you calculate your health age and your
life expectancy. Answer using the drop down boxes, and when finished
the site calculates your responses and provides you with a score at the
end.
Healthy Youth! Program Evaluation
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health provides evaluation technical assistance to our Funded Partners through a variety of evaluation resources and tools. If you are a CDC/DASH funded partner and have questions about your evaluation activities or need technical assistance, please contact your project officer or the Evaluation Research Team at ert@cdc.gov or use the CDC/DASH Contact Us form.
Keys to Excellence
School Nutrition Association
This is an on-line assessment tool designed to evaluate school nutrition programs.
Measuring and Monitoring: Review of Local Wellness Policy
Colorado Department of Education
This tool helps your school measure and monitor is wellness policy.
Nutrition Education: Principles of Sound Impact Evaluation
U.S. Department of Agriculture
This handbook describes the characteristics of strong impact for nutrition education.
School Health Index: A Self-Assessment and Planning Guide
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This easy-to-use self-assessment and planning tool enables school health councils and others to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of their school health policies, curricula, and services. The SHI features eight self-assessment modules, each corresponding to one of the CSHP components. Based on their self-assessment, school health teams identify goals and create an action plan tailored for their school. Many schools are incorporating these plans into their overall educational improvement plans. The SHI can be completed using a paper or online version.
Understanding Evaluation: The Way to Better Prevention Programs
U.S. Department of Education
“This handbook describes the why and how of program evaluation and outlines the steps in conducting evaluations.”
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