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How to conduct your own annual review
This webpage outlines a clear and easy to understand process for conducting annual reviews.The outcomes star user guide
This user guide from Homeless Link provides an overview of using the Outcomes Star to allow vulnerable people to track the changes taking place to them in a number of key support areas.Employing mixed methods in evaluation
These are the course notes for Jennifer Greene's 2007 workshop Employing mixed methods in evaluation presented at American Evaluation Association Summer Evaluation Institute in 2007.Evaluation in family support services
This online guide, written by Robyn Parker and published by the Australian Institute of Family Studies, aims to prompt family support service providers to think carefully and systematically about evaluaDefining theories of change
This review from CARE International UK looks at 19 peacebuilding projects in conflict-affected countries and finds that the articulation and review of theories of change has a wide range ofLessons from test-driving utilisation focused evaluation in Asia
This presentation from the AFREA Conferencein Ghana 2012, outlines DECI's focus for using UFE in its project using ICT for development.A practitioner's guide to developmental evaluation
This guidebook from J.W.ActKnowledge and Aspen Institute’s guided example: Theory of change
Drawing on the experience ActKnowledge and Aspen Institute had in evaluating the "Super Woman" Program, this guided example shows how to develop anAnalysis of covariance primer
This resource provides a detailed discussion, including examples, of the analysis of covariance. The information contained within this resource is for advanced users only.System Mapping: A case example
Innovation Network has used systUsing projective techniques in the evaluation of groups for children of rehabilitating drug addicts
"Using projective Techniques in the Evaluation of Groups for Children of Rehabilitating Drug Addicts" is the documentation of research that discusses and applies projective techniques to identify variables and draw conclusions about the menFour free coffee break demonstration recordings on international monitoring and evaluation
This blog post from Susan Kistler of the American Evaluation association (AEA) provides links to a series of webinars on different aspects of international monitoring and evaluation that were run as parThe impact of mother literacy and participation programs on child learning in India
This randomized control trial (RCT) from The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) examined multiple treatments in order to address low literacy levels of children.Measuring the impact of microfinance in Hyderabad, India
In a simple randomized control trial (RCT) by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a large Indian microfinance institution, Spandana, identified 104 low-income neighborhoods in HyCommunication policy research south (CPRsouth) evaluation report
This evaluation report from LIRNEasia is for the Communications Policy Research South (CPRsouth) project which was aimed at building the capacity of young IPANACeA formative network evaluation report
This evaluation report from the PAN Asian Collaborative for Evidence-based eHealth Adoption and Application (PANACeA) provides the findings from a capacity building project usingUtilization focused evaluation for development research to empower all Mongolians...
This evaluation report provides the findings of the capacity-building project to investigate Mongolia's policy and innovation in the sector of ICT and its socio-economic impact.Photolanguage
Produced by the Change Agency, this resource gives a brief overview of the history, use and application of the photolanguage technique.Evaluating capacity development: A case from agricultural research
The paper presents a conceptual framework developed to evaluate capacity development efforts, combining qualitative and quantitative methods.The most significant change approach for monitoring an Australian extension project
This article from PLA Notes describes how theUNESCO guidelines for follow-up to evaluation findings
This four-page paper provides an overview to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) procedures for evaluation follow up and a template for managers to detailPAN Asian Collaboration for Evidence-based e-Health Adoption and Application (PANACeA)
This case study from the PAN Asian Collaboration for Evidence-based e-Health Adoption and Application (PANACeA), details howBeneficiary assessment: An approach described
This paper describes the World Bank's approach to theDesigning 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.Case study: The information society innovation fund (ISIF)
This case study describes how The Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF) usedDevelopment research to empower all Mongolians through information communications technology
This case study highlights a Utilisation Focused EvSeeing 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.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.