ABSTRACT
Planning, the process of determining how desired outcomes can be achieved for the future is dependent upon information from the past. Evaluation has been shown to be a complex cycling, iterative process that parallels the planning process. Planning, the process of determining how desired outcomes can be achieved for the future is dependent upon information from the past. Planning and evaluation necessitate understanding the nature of information and the tools of prediction and of decision-making, as well as the character of the kinds of decisions about action that will be made. The idea that evaluation should be "built-in" means that planning should include arrangements for the concurrent and continual collection and review of information to guide the program's activities, as well as to review periodically the program's effects. Evaluation are different types evaluation of management control of program activities, evaluation of program efficiency, evaluation of program effect, evaluation of goals for the future, and feedback model of levels of evaluation.
