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The Handbook for Evaluating HIV Education: Booklet 1

Evaluating HIV Education Programs

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

  • What is HIV education?
  • Why evaluate HIV education

GUIDELINES FOR HIV EDUCATION EVALUATORS

Guideline 1: Focus on a manageable number of important program-related decisions

  • Two kinds of decisions
  • The role of program objectives
  • Focusing on major decisions
  • Must all decisions be linked to attaining objectives?
  • Final thoughts about Guideline 1
Guideline 2: Select and administer suitable assessment instruments
  • An emphasis on student outcome data
  • How to acquire suitable assessment devices
  • Securing permission to gather data
  • Confidentiality considerations
  • What about qualitative data?
  • Final thoughts about Guideline 2
Guideline 3: Use a data-gathering design consistent with the orientation of the evaluation
  • A data-gathering design for program-improvement evaluations
  • A data-gathering design for program-continuation evaluations
  • Sampling
  • Final thoughts about Guideline 3
Guideline 4: Use data-analysis procedures that yield understandable results
  • Practical versus statistical significance
  • Comprehensibility of results
  • Final thoughts about Guideline 4
Guideline 5: Report your results using a multilevel reporting scheme featuring written and oral reports
  • An appropriate level of detail
  • Oral reporting
  • Making recommendations
  • Final thoughts about Guideline 5

CONCLUSION

ADDITIONAL READING


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