Tools and tips
Policy Tools
Policy Hub includes a number of tools. These are practical resources that help you access and make the best use of evidence in the development and evaluation of policy. Use the hyperlinks below to navigate to the areas that are of interest to you.
- How do I measure the impact of policies?
- How do I ensure policies are outward-looking
- How can public involvement be used to improve policy making?
- How can skills in the co-ordination and delivery of policies be improved?
- How I find out about 'what works' in policy making?
- More help in finding and using evidence
These tools can be found at: http://www.policyhub.gov.uk/policy_tools/
Engaging Queenslanders: Evaluating community engagement
Engaging Queenslanders: Evaluating community engagement has been designed to assist public officials at all levels to evaluate community engagement activities. It provides guidance in:
- developing an evaluation framework
- developing evaluation data collection tools
- interpreting and analysing evaluation data
- ensuring evaluation outcomes feed into future planning and decision-making.
This tool can be found at: http://www.getinvolved.qld.gov.au/share_your_knowledge/resources/documents/pdf/guide_evaluation.pdf
Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
This page lists free resources for methods in evaluation and social research. The focus is on "how-to" do evaluation research and the methods used: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods. Most of these links are to resources that can be read over the web.
This resource can be found at: http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/
This section is dedicated to qualitative research in Information Systems (IS). Qualitative research involves the use of qualitative data, such as interviews, documents, and participant observation data, to understand and explain social phenomena. Qualitative researchers can be found in many disciplines and fields, using a variety of approaches, methods and techniques. In Information Systems, there has been a general shift in IS research away from technological to managerial and organizational issues, hence an increasing interest in the application of qualitative research methods.
This resource can be found at: http://www.qual.auckland.ac.nz/
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