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This checklist by the Harvard Center on the Developing Child would have been a really great tool as we were developing our preschool evaluation plan with CMoR/YWCA--still will be a good tool to evaluate the quality of our plan at this point.

A joint position statement from leading professional orgs in Early Childhood--includes trends and issues as valuable background info, plus recommendations, plus FAQs about program evaluation.

Trusted source in early childhood (Zero to Three), useful checklists and terminology for identifying and refining evaluation project.

Great resource for identifying measures to use within program evaluation in preschool--includes a table of assessment tools, their purposes, target age groups, and target areas

Hartwell and Orr describe and evaluate the Forensic Transition Program, a program in Massachusetts designed to provide support for people with mental illness during re-entry from incarceration.

"Public health researchers have advocated CBPR as a means to bring evidence-based public health policies and programs to communities and to enable researchers to conduct community-informed research. Despite these goals, no studies have evaluated whether linkages among agencies involved in the CBPR process have changed as a result of interventions. In our study, we measured network linkages across 14 topics to determine whether linkages among and between CBOs and universities have changed as a result of project activities."

A model to follow in thinking about our program evaluation and research for the museum-based preschool program. This article outlines a series of planned studies, emergent results to date, and highlights collaborative nature of the work. Need to look for follow up publications that provide specific results, conclusions, recommendations.

Since 2007, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Policy Research Center (PRC) has partnered with the Universities of New Mexico and Washington to study the science of community-based participatory research (CBPR). Our goal is to identify facilitators and barriers to effective community-academic partnerships in American Indian and other communities, which face health disparities.