Evaluation Plans for Proposals: Importance and Equitable Approaches
Maximizing Your Impact Through Evaluation Plans
Evaluation plans are often required by the sponsor as part of the proposal submission. This request is designed to increase the impact of the award and should be taken very seriously. Evaluation can demonstrate your commitment to improving the responsiveness of your work to sponsor requests, it can strengthen your program and the people in it, and it can help others who are seeking to follow in your footsteps.
Program evaluation for grant proposals can be completed by internal and external service providers. It is always recommended that evaluation be done by professionally trained individuals. As a general rule of thumb, 10% or more of your annual budget should be allocated to evaluation.
Dr. Boyce is an associate professor at ASU's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Dr. Boyce's recommendations for designing an evaluation plan that is culturally responsive and informed by social justice (discussed in the video).
1. Understand your own positionality and mental models.
2. Recognize that any product of social inquiry is culturally based, so acknowledge this.
3. Create processes to engage with the program participants informally and formally.
4. Ensure that the instruments and approach are responsive and the process of dissemination is appropriate.
Learn more! Watch the brief video today.
Other university's discussion on evaluation plans for proposals:
Brown University's Research Development Office
The Community Tool Box is a service of the Center for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas.
Indiana University workshop slide deck
A sample of evaluation practitioners who can be contacted to provide evaluation plan support:
UOEE (ASU office of program evaluation)
CREST (ASU office of evaluation)