OTIS Evaluation Guide (PDF) - California Department of Public Health

A. Single Policy
Objectives related to the adoption and/or implementation of a single policy are very common (“No” answer
to the question in Figure 6b). If the objective is a single policy objective, the next question OTIS asks is:
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• Is this objective policy adoption only or policy adoption and implementation or policy
implementation only (including compliance check)? See Figure 9
Figure 9
If you choose “Policy implementation only”, this completes your data input in the “Evaluation Design” section.
OTIS will take you back to the “Scope of Work Objective View” screen to complete a series of questions related
to outcome data. Those questions will be explained fully in the next chapter.
Note that compared to the “Scope of Work Objective View” screen you saw when you first began to
input evaluation information (Figure 1), OTIS has now entered in text that reads, “Single Policy- Policy
Implementation Only,” to reflect the information you just entered (Figure 10).
Regardless of the evaluation plan type you have selected, you will always have the option of entering in
process data collection information. Note that the “Add Collection of Process Data Activity” link appears
under the “Evaluation Activity Plan” section of the screen seen in Figure 10. Before you can begin entering in
process data collection information, you must first answer another question that will be explained below.
OTIS Evaluation Guide • March 2007