Arts info [Recurs electrònic] : the National Arts Information Project : evaluation toolkit [prepared by the Arts Council of England and the Local Government Arts Forum by Comedia ; conceived and written by François Matarasso, with Fred Brookes, Dave Everitt and contributions from Christine Hamilton]

1 Find out about evaluation: 1.1 Introducing evaluation ; 1.2 What do we mean by evaluation? ; 1.3 Evaluating your own work ; 1.4 Why is evaluation important? ; 1.5 When should you undertake evaluation? ; 1.6 The elements of an evaluation process ; 1.7 Inputs, outputs, outcomes and impact ; 1.8 A simple evaluation process ; 1.9 Research approaches ; 1.10 Understanding the results ; 1.11 Quality ; 1.12 Limitations and dangers -- 2. Evaluate an existing programme: 2.1 Planning internal evaluation ; 2.2 Setting your goals ; 2.3 Collecting input & output data ; 2.4 The outcomes of the arts ; 2.5 Monitoring outcomes ; 2.6 Sampling and piloting ; 2.7 Getting people's views -- 3. Evaluate a new project: 3.1 Project evaluation ; 3.2 Stakeholders ; 3.3 Setting an aim and objectives ; 3.4 Choosing indicators -- 4 Input data: 4.1 Introduction -- 5. Create reports: 5.1 Create reports from the database ; 5.2 Analysing the results ; 5.3 Reporting the results -- 6. Get help: 6.1 How the toolkit works ; 6.2 Generic output and outcome indicators ; 6.3 Project evaluation checklist ; 6.4 Glossary ; 6.5 Further resources ; 6.6 Acknowledgements