Evaluation Report Checklist

The Evaluation Report Checklist has two intended applications that are related to evaluation management: (1) a tool to guide a discussion between evaluators and their clients regarding the preferred contents of evaluation reports and (2) a tool to provide formative feedback to report writers.  Evaluators can self-rate their own progress during the writing phase.  They can also use the checklist to identify weaknesses or areas that need to be addressed in their evaluation report(s).  When two or more persons work on the same report, the checklist can serve as a tool to delegate, coordinate, and monitor progress among the contributors.

This checklist is not intended to be used as a metaevaluation tool.  Evaluation reports differ greatly in terms of purpose, budget, expectations, and needs of the client.  If one were to use this checklist to evaluate actual reports or draw comparisons across reports, one would need to consider or weight the checkpoints within sections and to weight the relative importance and value of each section.

This checklist draws upon and reflects The Program Evaluation Standards (Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, 1994).