Content of the in person session
- Definition of suitable indicators
- Quantitative data collection methods specific to digital, green, and entrepreneurship courses.
- Qualitative data collection methods specific to digital, green, and entrepreneurship courses.
- Experimental, quasi-experimental, non-experimental designs
- Key considerations, common pitfalls, and sources of bias
Exercise: Developing an evaluation strategy
Please consider the following approach:
- Description of the program you are about to evaluate
- Identification of the purpose of the evaluation
- Definition of the evaluation framework and why this framework was chosen (The impact philosophy pre-post test, consideration of counterfactuals, quantitative & qualitative data collection.
- Description of the evaluation design, including a data collection plan
- Use the logic model that you have created to determine how and when you will gather data on the output and outcomes. Think about which indicator and collection methods are suited best for capturing the outputs/outcomes.
- Overall assessment of the strengths and limitations
Participants will present their theory of change and their impact measurement plans and receive feedback from their peers and instructors.
