Even Start is a national program of early childhood and adult education to improve family literacy. This document is a series of four appendices which accompany the National Evaluation of the Even Start Family Literacy Program, a 4-year effort to assess projects, participants, and effects of Even Start. Appendix A provides in-depth description of nine participating literacy projects in various states. These descriptions include information on each project's context; its adult education, parenting, and early childhood services; its staffing needs; and its retention strategies. Appendix B provides a full set of the Even Start National Evaluation Information System Forms. Appendix C is a full set of the forms used to gather information for the in-depth program descriptions. Appendix D provides a detailed description of deriving estimates of program effect from reference groups. Included in this description are sections on: (1) defining project effectiveness; (2) establishing reference groups for comparisons; (3) assessing the comparability of reference groups; (4) evaluating implementation issues; (4) checking validity of growth expectations; and (5) using reference group analyses at the individual project level. (JW)