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Evaluation Checklists

An evaluation checklist distills and clarifies relevant elements of practitioner experience, theory, principles, and research to support evaluators in their work.

What's new?

We just added a checklist on Effective communication strategies for interviews and focus groups to the collection. Since the authors were working on this checklist when COVID-19 struck, they wrote a companion blog post on Strategies for Communicating in Virtual Settings.

An evaluation checklist distills and clarifies relevant elements of practitioner experience, theory, principles, and research to support evaluators in their work. The Evaluation Checklist Project seeks to advance excellence in evaluation by providing high-quality checklists to guide practice.

The checklists are organized below by the evaluation task area. We are working to expand and improve the collection, so some task areas have more checklists than others. 

Please note that some older checklists have been retired. (See Legacy Checklists)

Evaluation Task Areas

Crediting use of the checklists

This website should be credited when any of the site’s checklists are referred to in any written material. For example:  

Patton, M. Q. (2002). Utilization-focused evaluation checklist. https://wmich.edu/evaluation/checklists.

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