5 Principles for good evaluation
Use our 5 principles for good evaluation to help you judge if you are happy with your evaluation!
5 Principles for good evaluation – Self-assessment
Is your evaluation good enough?
Use the 5 principles self-assessment template to judge if you’re happy with your evaluation.
5 Principles for good evaluation – Top-tips (Is your evaluation good enough?)
Our 5 principles for good evaluation can help you judge if you are happy with your evaluation. This resource provides some top tips on how to do this, as well as links to relevant free ESS resources.
Befriending outcomes (Extract from The Source to the sea)
This extract from The Source to the Sea gives examples of outcomes for befriendees, volunteer befrienders, local communities, amenities and businesses, and those commissioning befriending services.
Case study: A Stitch in Time? Involvement in a learning programme
Theodora Hidalgo, Pilton Equalities Project tells her story about her involvement in one of the learning sets for our learning programme A Stitch in Time?
Case Study: Edinburgh School Uniform Bank (ESUB)
ESS worked with ESUB to help review their evaluation methods. This case study is an example of ESS’s evaluation principles – good evaluation should be about what matters, and fits the way you work.
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: Funeral Link Scotland
This case study is about how tailored support sessions with ESS helped Funeral Link identify the difference that they made to their service users.
Case Study: Girlguiding Scotland
This case study by Girlguiding Scotland is about how to embed evaluation across an organisation who are dependent on volunteers.
Case Study: Hebridean Pursuits Outdoor Learning (HPOL)
ESS worked with HPOL to help clarify their outcomes and indicators. This case study is an example of an ESS evaluation principle: good evaluation should be about what matters.