How Do You Evaluate CHIPS?
1. Gather the facts
- The equipment and technologies
- The people
- The calendar of activities
2. Gather the facts: Julia's observations
3. Make assessments: planning
- Grounded theory research
- Establish categories of data
- Establish definitions
- Preliminary hypotheses
- Planning for interviews, clients and staff
- Confidentiality issues
- Notification
- Construction of questions
- Choices of venue
4. Make assessments: implementation (Summer)
- Interviews: the people tell their stories
- Interviews: the staff tell their stories
- The calendar of activities
- Julia comments on problems here
5. Evaluate the data (Fall)
- Answer the questions posed by the grantor
- Address the goals set forth in the proposal
- Provide a framework for replication
- Develop recommendations for KORRNet itself
