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Implementation Monitoring and Process Evaluation
- Ruth P. Saunders - University of South Carolina, USA
April 2015 | 344 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This practical guide helps readers understand and use the steps that program planners and evaluators take in implementing and monitoring a new program, policy, or practice in an organizational setting. The book covers the entire process, from planning, to carrying out the plan, and summarizing, reporting, and using the results. A wide range of real-world examples in the book are drawn from health, education, non-profit organizations, and public administration, and an extended case study, Your Turn boxes, and worksheet templates help readers apply concepts to their own projects. Ideal for practitioners, researchers, and students, this book can be used as a primary text for a process evaluation or an implementation monitoring course or as a supplemental text in a broader program evaluation course.
Introduction, Overview, and Perspectives
Phase I. Basic Program Planning
Step 1. Conduct Preimplementation Planning
Phase II. Implementation Planning
Step 2. Describe the Program, Policy, or Practice, Organizational Setting, and Broader Context
Step 3. Determine Strategies for Facilitating Adoption of the Program, Policy, or Practice at the Organizational Level
Step 4. Establish Complete and Acceptable Delivery/ Installation of the Program, Policy, or Practice
Step 5. Develop Strategies for Facilitating Program, Policy, or Practice Implementation and Sustainability
Step 6. Develop or Update the Action Model, Action Plan, and Logic Model to Integrate Planning
Phase III. Implementation Monitoring Planning
Step 7. Develop Initial Implementation Monitoring Questions
Step 8. Choose Implementation Monitoring Methods and Compile the Comprehensive Implementation Monitoring Plan
Phase IV. Implementation
Step 9. Implement the Program, Policy, or Practice and Use Implementation Data for Formative Purposes
Step 10. Collect and Manage Implementation Data
Phase V. A nalysis/Synthesis, Reporting, and Use
Step 11. Analyze and Synthesize Implementation Monitoring Data
Step 12. Report and Use Implementation Data
Future Directions
Many students are keen to test interventions across a range of topic areas and in a range of settings. A better understanding of the intricacies of intervention development, delivery and evaluation is an important part of many student's development. In particular, a better understanding of the benefits of a good process evaluation in addition to the more obvious outcome measures is something that is important. This book offers a theoretical foundation for process evaluation but its strength is in the illustrations that it offers from real world evaluations. In particular, the use of physical activity illustrations is of great benefit to many students that I work with.
Faculty of Sport, Media and Management, University of St Mark & St John
December 10, 2015
