Evaluation Overview

Well Regarded Intervention Evaluation Criteria

Category	Best practice	Well-regarded		Promising
Subcategory	BEST PRACTICE	GOLD LEVEL	SILVER LEVEL	PROMISING
Designation process	Review panel; independent reviewers; with systematic criteria	Identified by a credible source.		Posting to Virtual Community. Identified by others, or by THCU Core Team.
Plausability, practicality	Assessed to be plausible and practical, in a systematic valid and reliable procedure	Assessed to be plausible and practical, by THCU core team, using their personal judgments.	Assessed to be plausible and practical, by THCU core team, using their personal judgments.	It seems to have highly promising aspects of plausibility and practicality
Evaluation results	Assessed to be effective	Well-regarded "gold" interventions are exemplary programs identified by a credible source as interventions which have yielded positive outcome results in the workplace.	We also have a 'silver level' of well-regarded interventions that show positive process evaluation results.	but has yet to be evaluated
Category	Best practice	Well-regarded		Promising
Subcategory	BEST PRACTICE	GOLD LEVEL	SILVER LEVEL	PROMISING
Evaluation status		Used sound outcomes evaluation practices.	Used sound process evaluation practices.	There is intent to evaluate the intervention to show the program has positive process and/or outcome results, using sound evaluation practices.
Intervention		Addresses at least one of the catalogue topics.	Addresses at least one of the catalogue topics.
CONCLUSIONS				A level assigned to an intervention that is identified as a promising practice for use in Ontario workplaces.
		Well-regarded "gold level" interventions are exemplary programs identified by a credible source. Ideally these interventions have yielded positive outcome results in the workplace using sound evaluation practices.	Interventions which have sound process evaluation results are also included and labeled "silver level"	The intervention is seen as a valuable intervention to be included in the catalogue – an intervention that has 'promise'. As interventions are evaluated showing positive results, their status will be updated in the catalogue.
				Disclaimer: The 'Promising' listings will showcase interventions that are promising, yet are lacking and/or have minimal evaluation results, therefore THCU is in no way recommending these interventions as well-regarded let alone best-practice.