The resources in the links below are evaluation tools and materials designed for technical environments, and they provide a great starting point for evaluation efforts. We encourage those of you who are engaging in research and practices to advance women's participation in IT to use these tools as a way to evaluate and assess your efforts.

• NCWIT Social Science Advisory Board Consultation Service NCWIT has established a consultation service in which Alliance members can discuss their specific plans and programs one-on-one with a member of the SSAB. 

• Online Assessment Resource Library
  Guidelines for planning and conducting evaluation; a variety of plans, reports, and instruments from real project evaluations.
  
• Assessing Women in Engineering
  A set of assessment tools, instructions, and guidelines for implementing recruiting and retention programs
  
• Survey Monkey
  Free or for-fee online survey hosting service makes survey development fast and easy.
  
• AAPOR Best Practices for Survey and Public Opinion Research
  A list of best (and worst) practices for developing, administering, and analyzing surveys.
  
• NCWIT's Survey-in-a-Box: Student Experience of the Major (SEM) helps undergraduate computer science and IT departments identify conditions for student retention and plan actions to improve the student experience. The SEM Survey-in-a-Box includes everything you need to prepare for, administer, and act on results of a student survey.
  
• NCWIT Extension Services (ES) provides advice and resources for implementing systemic change in undergraduate computing programs for sustainable increases in enrollment, retention, and graduation of women.
  
  

If you know of other online tools that may help our community, please tell us about them by emailing us.