ABSTRACT
This chapter describes various aspects of program evaluation to help to increase practitioners’ evaluation literacy and competency. Program evaluation involves the systematic collection of information that assists stakeholders to understand a program better, improve its effectiveness, and make decisions about future program planning. We describe the need to evaluate programs and ideas for what should be pursued for an evaluation to be effective. The first half of the chapter will focus on evaluation of programs and how to design such an evaluation. The latter half of the chapter will look at evaluating individual service providers. There is a lack of domain-specific mental performance evidence from the literature for either program evaluation or consultant evaluation. This chapter will rely heavily on general evaluation principles as well as sport research as is appropriate.
