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Evaluation Designs: Alignment with Evaluation Objectives

Evaluation Designs: Alignment with Evaluation Objectives

Organization: The Evaluator's Institute, Claremont Graduate University
Highlights Calendar Icon Event Date: 2023-11-02

The course will cover the following design categories, highlighting advantages and disadvantages of each: identifying when best to use specific design types; and will provide case examples of each.

  • Experimental Designs: completely randomized, randomized block, post-test only control group
  • Quasi-experimental Designs: non-random, pre-existing, non-equivalent groups
    • Score-matching (propensity score – statistically matching program and comparison groups)
    • Regression discontinuity – using a cutoff score to identify program and non-program groups
    • Natural experiments – difference-in-difference (program and comparison group)
    • Interrupted time series
  • Correlation – Ex-pot Facto Designs: Identification of conditions that have occurred or are present, and investigating the presumed cause – association with prior implemented program
  • Non-experimental Designs: no manipulation of independent variables (program versus non-program)
    • Cross-sectional, panel studies
    • Observational
    • Single variable
    • Correlational – relationship between two variables, but no control over possible confounding factors