Hello, AEA365 community! Liz DiLuzio here, Lead Curator of the blog. This week is Individuals Week, which means we take a break from our themed weeks and spotlight the Hot Tips, Cool Tricks, Rad Resources and Lessons Learned from any evaluator interested in sharing. Would you like to contribute to future individuals weeks? Email me at AEA365@eval.org with an idea or a draft and we will make it happen.
We are Diana Rohlman, Taylor Vogel, and Francesca Germano–toxicologists and evaluators at Oregon State University. Our lab conducts exposure science studies with community members to better understand what chemicals they are exposed to, and if those chemicals might be harmful. We are dedicated to ensuring that study participants have easy access to their data. The process of analyzing, preparing, and then giving people study results is called the report-back of research results, or RBRR.
Our work, and others, has shown that over 90% of study participants want their results–for many, this is their motivation for participating in research in the first place. For RBRR to be useful, beneficial, and effective, evaluation is necessary. However, when we looked at the literature, we found that researchers often omitted evaluation entirely, or did not provide details of the evaluation methodology, including the framework, questions, or outcomes.
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To address this, we built the RBRR Evaluation Question Bank, to help researchers streamline the development of their evaluation materials.
The bank includes questions from published RBRR evaluation resources as well as industry standard tools for assessing ease, usability, and satisfaction (e.g., Customer Effort Score). There are currently 12 resources represented in the Question Bank.
The bank organizes questions under the following dimensions: Knowledge (changes in knowledge, understandability), Attitudes (environmental views, interests, emotional reactions), Behavior (reducing exposures, sharing/discussing information, continued learning, duration of engagement), and Satisfaction/Usability (satisfaction, ease of platform logistics, complexity/relevancy, future use, opportunities for improvement, finding information). Each question text is accompanied by response options (e.g., Likert scale, multiple choice, etc.), source literature, and notes regarding any adaptations.
How to use this bank: The bank exists as a downloadable Excel workbook on our website. It can be searched by dimension, sub-theme, or question type (e.g., open/qualitative, multiple choice, Likert scale, etc.). Questions can be adapted to study-specific exposures or health outcomes, and tailored to appropriate evaluation methods such as interview guides, focus group guides, or surveys.
This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA. Recommended citation: Vogel T., Germano F., Barton M., Rohlman D. Report-back of research results Evaluation Question Bank. 2026. Translating Research to Action Portal. Oregon State University.
How to add to the bank: This bank is not exhaustive. If you have additional questions or resources that should be considered for inclusion in the RBRR Evaluation Question Bank, please send them to Diana Rohlman at diana.rohlman@oregonstate.edu. Please include a citation for the tool/questions, the full question text, response item(s), and associated notes.
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