Event Date: 2026-03-18 The Evaluators' Institute Deadline: 2026-03-16
The purpose of this course is to sensitize evaluators to the opportunities in their work for designing and implementing mixed methods, and to be more intentional in the ways that they design and implement their studies to integrate qualitative and quantitative approaches.
Event Date: 2026-03-20 The Evaluators' Institute Deadline: 2026-03-18
This course aims to demystify AI by demonstrating how emerging tools can be thoughtfully integrated into evaluation processes to enhance methodological rigor, support culturally responsive practices, and generate socially meaningful insights.
Event Date: 2026-03-23 The Evaluators' Institute Deadline: 2026-03-19
Utilization-Focused Evaluation begins with the premise that evaluations should be judged by their utility and actual use; therefore, evaluators should facilitate the evaluation process and design any evaluation with careful consideration of how everything that is done, from beginning to end, will affect use. Use concerns how real people in the real world apply evaluation findings and experience the evaluation process.
Successful evaluation depends on our ability to generate evidence attesting to the feasibility, relevance/effectiveness of the interventions, services, or products we study. While theory guides our designs and how we organize our work, it is measurement that provides the evidence we use in making judgments about the quality of what we evaluate. The quality of inferences made in evaluation is directly related to the quality of the measurement influencing our judgments.
This course provides public health practitioners with a practical, skills-based introduction to program evaluation using the CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health as a guiding structure.