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EVALUATION PLAN GUIDANCE
SOCIAL INNOVATION FUND
IV. Study Components
Overview
The Study Components section provides guidance on the design elements of impact and implementation
evaluations, and issues that need to be addressed regarding study measures, sampling, and data collection. It
also details the criteria for descriptions of statistical analyses of data and approaches to missing data. In this
section of the guidelines, information, specific guidance, and criteria for different design types are presented
separately. Since your evaluation plan may address one or more types of impact/outcome evaluation designs
as well as implementation evaluation or feasibility studies, please review the guidance sections for the designs
and other study components shown in the table below.
Study Component
Follow the guidance for this section:
Impact Evaluation-Design Types,
Yes (An evaluation plan will typically
including:
choose one or more types of
Impact/Outcome Evaluation designs)
-
Randomized Between Group Design
If applicable
-
Groups Formed by Matching
If applicable
-
Groups Formed by Cutoff Score
If applicable
-
Single Group Design
If applicable
-
Interrupted Time Series Design
If applicable
-
Pre-experimental Design (i.e., no
If applicable
comparison group/counterfactual)
- Impact Feasibility Study
If applicable
Implementation Evaluation
If applicable
Sampling, Measures, and Data
Yes (All evaluation plans should
Collection
include)
Statistical Analysis of Impacts
Yes (All evaluation plans should
include)
Program evaluations may have multiple components, including implementation analysis, outcome analysis,
impact analysis, and cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness or other cost inclusive analyses.
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