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This guide to program evaluation presents questions that illuminate aspects of the evaluation process. Issues to consider in program evaluation are: (1) the intended results of the program; (2) hypotheses about the possible results of the program; (3) the types of data that will indicate achievement of the intended results and the variables that will be measured; (4) the measures that will indicate achievement of the intended results of the program; (5) data sources; (6) research design; (7) the timeline for gathering and analyzing data; (8) data collection; (9) data analysis; (10) data interpretation; (11) adjustment to the project based on findings; (12) communication of the results; and (13) the approximate cost of the evaluation. (Contains 45 references.) (SLD) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Program Evaluation