Plan for the Cross-Cutting Evaluation of HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreements
by The Measurement Group 
(George J. Huba, Ph.D. & Lisa A. Melchior, Ph.D.)

List of Evaluation Modules

Descriptions of Evaluation Modules

Capitated Care Work Group Modules and Protocol

Community Based Organization Work Group Modules and Protocol

Comprehensive Healthcare Work Group Modules and Protocol

Infrastructure-Advocacy Work Group Modules and Protocol

Training Work Group Modules and Protocol

Design feature: The cross-cutting or national evaluation for the cooperative agreement projects uses a modular approach. Standardized short forms of 1-2 pages were developed for a number of different functional evaluation question. Many forms were developed in a scannable form that can either be faxed to TMG for automatic entry into the data base or mailed to TMG for scanning. Data forms, received either from the fax or from the scanner are automatically appended to the project database thus yielding data which is immediately up-to-date.

By developing very brief modules, data collection for different projects are customized by including those modules which fit the purpose of the project. By using common modules across projects, as much comparable data as possible may be obtained.

In addition to the short modules, longer modules have been prepared as "standard" interview item sets, or as self-administered questionnaires. Data entry for these modules is by data entry shells developed in a standard database (Microsoft Access) and compiled so that the organization using the shell would not need to own a copy of the database. TMG provides these data entry shells to all project sites upon request to allow data entry at the site with transmission of the resulting data files to TMG. Alternately, data entry may be performed at TMG.

For those projects that wish to collect the information in a module using their standard database programs, TMG will arrange to receive a standard format data dump approximately every 2-4 weeks. Sites will be responsible for writing the data to a standard format and sending it to TMG on a regular schedule.

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