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Filter search resultsArticulating mental models
Articulating mental models involves talking individually or in groups with key informants (including program planners, service implementors and clients) about how they understand an intervention works.МетодGroup model building
Group model building involves building a logic model in a group, often using sticky notes.МетодPrevious research and evaluation
Using the findings from evaluation and research studies that were previously conducted on the same or closely related areas.МетодGeneric change theories
Generic change theories can be applied across different sectors - for example, motivation, deterrence, capacity development. This page provides links to some resources that outline these change theories.МетодRisk assessment
Conducting a risk assessment involves identifying potential negative impacts, their likelihood of occurring and how they might be avoided.МетодUnusual events reporting
The reporting of unusual events or incidents is important both for the sake of transparency and to improve policies and procedures.МетодOrganisational M&E policy
Organisational monitoring and evaluation policies are the set of rules or principles that an organisation uses to guide its decisions and actions with respect to monitoring and evaluation across programs and departments.МетодCompetency frameworks
Competencies are the skills, knowledge, attributes and behaviours needed to fulfil particular roles.МетодThumbnail description
A ’thumbnail’ is a brief description (short like a thumb nail).МетодPeak experience description
This method provides a succinct and coherent description of a program, project or policy when it is operating at its best.МетодExisting project description
Existing project descriptions about what is being evaluated can sometimes be accessed and used by evaluators.МетодPeer review for meta-evaluation
Reviewing the evaluation by using peers from within or outside of the organisation.МетодStories of change
Stories of change show what is valued through the use of specific narratives of events. Structured with a beginning, middle and end, they focus on the change that has taken place due to the program.МетодValues clarification interviews
Values Clarification Interviews involve interviewing key informants and intended beneficiaries to identify what they value.МетодValues clarification public opinion questionnaires
Seeking feedback from large numbers of people about their priorities through the use of questionnaires.МетодStated goals and objectives
Evaluations can use the program's stated objectives and goals to assess program success or failure.МетодContribute to broader evidence base
Inform future policy and practice by others outside the organisation.МетодInform decision making aimed at improvement (formative)
Changing or confirming policies and practices.МетодInform decision making aimed at selection, continuation or termination (summative)
Identifying best value for money.МетодLobby and advocate
Justify expenditure and demonstrate achievements.МетодBuild trust and legitimacy across stakeholders
Develop better understandings of each other and demonstrate that expectations are being met.МетодEnsure accountability
Holding someone to account to someone for something.МетодEvaluation plans and operations checklist
This checklist from the Evaluation Checklists Project provides a guide to those interested in conducting a preliminary, formative metaevaluation.МетодOutlier sampling
Outlier sampling focuses on the extremes – the end-points of the normal distribution bell-curve.МетодConfirming and disconfirming sampling
Confirming and disconfirming cases assist the evaluator in the confirmatory fieldwork stage of an evaluation.МетодTheory-based sampling
Theory-based sampling involves selecting cases according to the extent to which they represent a particular theoretical construct.МетодCriterion sampling
Criterion sampling involves the identification of a particular criterion of importance, articulation of this criterion, and systematic review and study of cases that meet the criterion.МетодSnowball sampling
Snowball or chain sampling is a method for locating information rich key informants and critical cases.МетодCritical case sampling
A critical case is one that permits analytic generalisation, as, if a theory can work in the conditions of the critical case, it's likely to be able to work anywhere.МетодHomogenous sampling
Homogenous sampling involves selecting similar cases to further investigate a particular phenomenon or subgroup of interest. The logic of homogenous sampling is in contrast to the logic of maximum variation sampling.МетодMaximum variation sampling
A maximum variation sample contains cases that are purposefully as different from each other as possible. This type of sampling is useful for examining range in large national or global programs.МетодIntensity sampling
Intensity sampling uses the same logic as extreme case sampling – that much can be learned from the ends of the distribution range – but with less emphasis on the extremes.Метод