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Conditions to consider in the use of randomized experimental designs in evaluation
This paper, written by George Julnes, University of New Mexico, Melvin M. Mark, Penn State University, and Stephanie Shipman, U.S.Designing and facilitating creative conversations & learning activities
This resource is a companion to The Barefoot Guide 2: Learning Practices in Organisations and Social Change, providing a practical support guide for designing and facilitating engaging and productive conversations and learning experiences.ParEvo: A web-assisted process enabling the participatory exploration of alternative futures
ParEvo is a method of developing alternative past histories or future scenarios using a participatory evolutionary process (hence ParEvo).Case study: The information society innovation fund (ISIF)
This case study describes how The Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF) usedEvaluation Cost
Evaluation Cost es una aplicación de cálculo novedosa diseñada para estimar el coste de un proceso de evaluación de principio a fin de forma rápida y sistemática considerando diferentes grados de complejidad y detalle.Indigenous evaluation toolkit: An actionable guide for organisations serving American Indian / Alaska Native communities through opioid prevention programming
This Indigenous evaluation toolkit aims to improve health and wellness by encouraging Indigenous communities to tell their stories and reclaim Indigenous ways-of-knowing.Dotmocracy.org
This site provides resources for Dotmocracy facilitators and more recent alternatives.Development research to empower all Mongolians through information communications technology
This case study highlights a Utilisation Focused EvMoving Beyond the Webinar: Four Approaches to Take Your Web Presentation to the Next Level
This blog post from freshspectrum argues that webinars as they are currently used are 'overrated' and therefore it outlines four alternatives that may be used in place of standard webinar presentationPresentation tips
This website provides a number of tips and tricks to help you create an engaging PowerPoint presentaion.The site also includes links to free downloadable guides that provide support in presenting to audiences.Did You Know? A Screenshot is Worth a Thousand Words
This blog from Ted Curran provides a detailed guide and examples of how to use screenshots to make it easier for people to see what you are talking about.Revisiting Prezi for Presentations
This blog reviews the presentation software 'Prezi' as a tool which can be used as a substitute for PowerPoint.Digital Storytelling
This article from Participatory Learning and Action describes the use of digital storytelling (DST) in development and how it is used to draw out stories and engage storytellers in the evaluation procesSeeing like a citizen: Participatory video and action research for citizen action
This article from Joanna Wheeler of the Institute of Development Studies outlines the uses of participatory video as a means to understand and reflect the lives and perspectives of the participants of a pDodging Bullets in Presentations
This presentation gives advice on how to construct and present engaging PowerPoint presentations.The premise behind this presentation is that PowerPoint presentations contain too many bullets and are too wordy.How to use PowerPoint
This blog post highlights many of the issues that cause presentations to lose focus and suggests some tips for improvement.Presentation Tools
This web page provides links to a variety of presentation tools that are available on the world wide web.Contents Tools are listed under the following headings:The voice of the farmer in agricultural extension
This paper analyses ten beneficiary assessments conducted by the World Bank of agricultural extension programs.Toward a listening bank: A review of best practices and the efficacy of beneficiary assessment
This paper reviews the use of beneficiary assessment in several World Bank projects.Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practices
This book provides "a comprehensive overview of steps in designing and evaluating programs amid uncertain and potentially confounding conditions.Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics
This paper from the Journal of Economic Literature outlines the main principles and uses of Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs in research.Regression Discontinuity Designs: A Guide to Practice
This paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) provides an outline of some of the practical issues around the implementation of Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs whilst reviewing someOptimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator
This paper analyses regression discontinuity designs which can be used for the evaluation of development interventions. The specific focus of the investigation is the choice of the smoothing parameter that is used.Does Head Start Improve Children’s Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
This paper analyses the Head Start program which was established to support poor families with health and education services.Incentive Effects of Social Assistance: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
This paper from the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) uses a Regression Discontinuity approach to analyse the effects of transfer programs on labor market outcomes and living arrangements.School Enrollment, Selection and Test Scores
This study from the World Bank Development Research Group analyzes the impact of a scholarship program, the Cambodia Education Sector Support Program (CESSP), on scRegression Discontinuity: Software for bandwidth and codes for the manipulation...
This website contains both the software and codes for supporting the use of Regression Discontinuity Design.High school employment: Meaningful connections for at-risk youth
This research paper from the Urban Institute uses instrumental variable methods in order to estimate the effect that employment in high school will have on the long term education outcomes of students.Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers: Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change
In this video of a session from the Nonprofit Technology Conference 2012, approaches to the use of data and informational visualization are demonstrated and discussed.The Qualitative Method of Impact Analysis
This paper provides a detailed analysis of qualitative evaluation design as an option in impact analysis.Making the case for capacity building
This case study evaluation of the Pact's Umbrella Grants Management (UGM) Program in South Africa highlights the additional benefits that the organisational capacity building assistance can provide to the effectiveness of grants.Confirmatory Program Evaluation: A Method for Strengthening Causal Inference
This paper focusses on the analysis of current issues in theory driven evlauation as discussed in evaluation practice literature.