This course runs from November 3 - 5, from 10:00am - 5:00pm (EST) daily.
Design is the structure, the recipe that is used to assess program progress, outcomes, and impact. This course focuses on design decisions and their alignment with evaluation questions; the strength of evidence expected from the evaluation, the resources that are available to support the evaluation; as well as practical considerations in conducting the evaluation study. Course content examines the alignment of design choice with evaluation purpose and the questions to be addressed; and how designs are used to:• Mitigate bias in assessing program results• Structure data collection and knowledge generation – synthesizing what is known with what needs to be known – the knowledge we want to produce• Increase relevance – ability to generalize to populations not directly evaluatedParticipants will have opportunity to select designs and build rationales for design choice across international and domestic case examples that will be used throughout the course.