Dear all,
After spending more than 20 years conducting impact evaluations and audience research studies across a wide diversity of settings, contexts and types of participants, I’ve witnessed -too many times- how poorly designed evaluations can waste people’s time and introduce misinformation into organizations.
That is why I decided to create a new training course on Evaluation Design that will help you build a strong foundation for your evaluation. It will enable you to deliver useful insights that enable evidence-based decisions. This online course is entirely self-paced so that you can engage with the course or access resources when it is most convenient. You can watch a short video about this course here: https://vimeo.com/579996307
This training course covers the following topics:
- Laying the foundations for effective evaluation
- Getting to know the value of impact evaluation
- Distinguishing between outputs and outcomes
- Understanding the range of evaluation approaches and tools available to you
- How to develop your evaluation plan
- How to be an ethical evaluator
- Data consent and how it should be handled
- How to organize data for qualitative and quantitative analyses
By the end of this course, you will:
- Understand key concepts for evaluation, including ‘impact’.
- Be ready to articulate your 'theory of change'.
- Be capable of translating your evaluation goals into clear, measurable outcomes that can be assessed.
- Be able to develop an evaluation plan based on available time and resources, as well as your evaluation goals.
- Make an informed decision about which type of evaluation approach and tool is most likely to be appropriate for evaluating your intended outcomes.
- Be able to apply basic ethical principles to your evaluation.
- Be able to effectively organize and store evaluation data.
- Make sure you are in line with GDPR rules.
Register now at www.methodsforchange.org
I’m looking forward to seeing you soon!
Best wishes,
Dr. Eric A. Jensen, Fellow Higher Education Academy
1. Director of Research, Institute for Methods Innovation (IMI)
2. Brinson Foundation Civic Science Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3. Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick (part-time)
Find out more about my background and experience in evaluation here: https://www.methodsforchange.org/dr-eric-jensen/
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