Resources

Authenticity Consulting, LLC

Free Management Librar
www.managementhelp.org/
This library is a free community resource to be shared and contributed to by users and readers across the world. The overall goal of the library is to provide leaders and managers (especially those with very limited resources) with basic and practical information about personal, professional and organizational development.

Basics of Conducting Focus Groups
www.managementhelp.org/evaluatn/focusgrp.htm
Written by Carter McNamara, Ph.D., this document provides tips about preparing for a focus group, developing questions and planning a session.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr4811a1.htm
The CDC's framework is a comprehensive, highly recommended tool that guides the user through the process of program evaluation.

The Research Methods Knowledge Base

www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/
This comprehensive web-based textbook addresses topics in social research methods, including formulating research questions, sampling (probability and nonprobability), measurement (surveys, scaling, qualitative, unobtrusive), data analysis and writing the research paper.

University of Minnesota

Focus Group Interviewing
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~rkrueger/focus.html
Richard A. Krueger, a professor at the University of Minnesota, has provided resources to help people who are involved in program evaluation, applied research or focus group interviewing on this website.

WK Kellogg Foundation

www.wkkf.org

Evaluation Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to provide guidance for undertaking an evaluation and learning it. It is targeted primarily at those who will be working with an external evaluator or conducting their own rigorous internal evaluations, but anyone who is seeking to design a useful evaluation can benefit from it.