This section will help you to:
- Use your findings to communicate what you have learnt
- Change your practice.
Tailored Support :
Not only can our tailored support help you draw out learning from your evaluation, it is also a valuable way to embed learning from workshops. Find out more about our tailored support here.
Resources for Acting on your learning:
ESS Support Guide
Support Guide 4a – Acting on your learning from evaluation
This support guide explains the many different ways you can use evaluation for example to get better at what you do, to engage service users, or to secure funding.
Support Guide 4b – Reflective practice
In this support guide there are suggestions of tools to prompt reflective practice.
Evaluation guide
Evaluating Community Projects – A Practical Guide
These guidelines were developed to help 20 community and voluntary organisations to evaluate their work.
Learning from evaluation
Guide for people in the third sector who want to make better use of evidence and insight to identify learning about what works, for who and in what circumstances.
Other Resources
Helping You Share Your Learning (workbook)
This workbook can help you pinpoint what learning you have that would be helpful to share. As well as consider who to share it with, what you want to achieve by sharing, and the best way to go about it.
Does Your Money Make a Difference? (2010)
The second edition of this publication by CES’ Does Your Money Make a Difference? This monitoring and evaluation good practice guide for funders was originally developed from a study for
Explaining the difference your project makes: A big guide to using an outcomes approach
This guide sets out some of the main steps that you will have to take to plan and manage a project using an outcomes approach.
The W.K Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook
This handbook provides a framework for thinking about evaluation as a relevant and useful program tool. The Handbook also provides background reading on logic models. The Handbook identifies four steps
Case Studies
Case Study: Age Scotland
This case study is about how a series of support sessions with ESS helped Age Scotland set organisational outcomes and create a new evaluation toolkit for the whole organisation.
Case Study: Evaluating public engagement work (The School of Life Sciences, Dundee University)
The School of Life Sciences at University of Dundee show how they evaluate public engagement activities.
Case Study: Our evaluation story (The School of Life Sciences, Dundee University)
The School of Life Sciences, Dundee University received tailored support from Evaluation Support Scotland to complete a logic model and set outcomes.
