Download: External Evaluator Timeline Example

This 2018 guide is an example of a visual timeline of evaluation activities across three years of a grant.

The visual timeline provides an example of how to layout evaluation activities across a three-year project. The evaluation activities include major data collection events, reporting, and meeting with your evaluator.

This comes from our March 2018 webinar Evaluation Basics for Non-Evaluators.  Check out the webinar

About the Authors

Lori Wingate

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Executive Director, The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University

Lori has a Ph.D. in evaluation and more than 20 years of experience in the field of program evaluation. She is co-principal investigator of EvaluATE and leads a variety of evaluation projects at WMU focused on STEM education, health, and higher education initiatives. Dr. Wingate has led numerous webinars and workshops on evaluation in a variety of contexts, including CDC University and the American Evaluation Association Summer Evaluation Institute. She is an associate member of the graduate faculty at WMU. She, along with Dr. Kelly Robertson, led the development of The Evaluation Center's online training program, Valeo (valeoeval.com)

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