138 Performance by Design
issues like time requirements, financial resources, available partici-
pants, etc.) to prioritize and select data-collection techniques. (It
can be helpful to identify any measures that you will use to judge
the success of each formative evaluation to guide prioritization and
selection).
Step Two: Select formative evaluations.
Desired results: A list of the formative evaluation processes
selected for each evaluation objective.
You
should select a combination of evaluation techniques that
will provide adequate and useful information for making improve-
ment decisions. Focus your selection on the results (i.e., objectives)
defined for each formative evaluation. The data collected during the
formative evaluations ...