Question 1 - did you evaluate

I first looked at the question B1 - If no evaluation was carried out, why not?  From the 15 interviews, only 5 did project evaluation (or said/thought they did). From the 10 nos, I would say four of those did product evaluation in some format and one did some informal evaluation as part of an action research project which by its nature has reflection and redesign built in.
The five who said yes they did evaluation, three did evaluation as part of an action research approach and two did product evaluation.
To summarise:

Key:

Prod/Prog – evaluated a product or program which was the outcome of the project

AR/DE – used an action research approach so did a kind of developmental evaluation

	Did you evaluate?	type
1	No
2	No
3	No
4	Yes	DE
5	Yes	prog
6	Yes	AR
7	Yes	PAR
8	No	prod
9	No	prog
10	Yes	prog
11	No
12	No
13	No	Prod
14	No	Prog
15	No

There were three main themes that came through in the answers:

1. Different concepts of what is meant by evaluation – confusion over product, process and outcomes. Not a universal understanding of what evaluation is
2. Action research and developmental evaluation – informally evaluating whilst not actually writing formal reports etc
3. Lack of money and time to do evaluation