OBJECTIVES
The Retirement Research Foundation promotes the use of evaluation as part of every RRF grant in order to:
- Encourage applicants and grantees to be more effective learning organizations, gathering and systematically analyzing important client and program information about the nature, reach, quality and efficiency of the services they provide.
- Enable us, as a Foundation, to understand the value of investments we make and the lessons that funded projects can teach us about how to invest our grant dollars more effectively in the future
- Add to knowledge in the field about best practices in services for older adults by supporting, when appropriate, rigorous experimental or quasi-experimental outcome studies.
EVALUATION CATEGORIES
RRF uses three categories or types of evaluation:
- Implementation: Providing practical lessons that emerge from putting a new project into action.
- Process: Generating a blueprint of a program in action
- Outcome: Determining if a program can improve one or more targeted results
NEXT STEPS
To get more information about evaluation categories, click on the links above. You may also learn more about program evaluation at these Web-based evaluation sites. Applicants should incorporate evaluation plans that are most appropriate to their goals.
For help and more information, contact Nancy R. Zweibel, PhD, Senior Program Officer, at (773) 714.8080 or e-mail: info@rrf.org.