• Reviewing the proposed design to ensure that it is feasible and sound
• Monitoring the design to see that tasks are completed as planned and within budget
• Checking the quality of instruments, procedures, and products (such as data and reports)
• Reviewing the design for possible midstream revisions (especially in light of either the utility the evaluation has shown so far for important audiences or
the problems the evaluation was encountering)
• Checking the effects of metaevaluation on the design of the evaluation