impact evaluation

A call for a wider perspective on impact evaluation… by Rick Davies

1 Comment / Uncategorized / February 26, 2021 February 20, 2021

Hi, I’m Rick Davies, an evaluation consultant based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. These days impact evaluation seems to be all about causal attribution. See for example, the first paragraph of the Better Evaluation page on Impact Evaluation. Or, the UK Government’s Magenta Book annex on “Analytical methods for use within an evaluation” I think this is an overly narrow definition …

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LA RED TIG Week: Beyond the zero-impact result: have you checked the spillover effects? By María Fernanda Rodrigo

Leave a Comment / Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse / September 21, 2018 September 2, 2018

Greetings! I am María Fernanda Rodrigo and I am a Senior Associate evaluator at the Office of Evaluation and Oversight at the Inter-American Development Bank, where my research focuses on productive sectors. Have you ever found zero effects in your impact evaluation? After incorporating many specifications, the data is clear: your program has no effect …

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Experiments TIG Week: William Faulkner on A Righteous Cover-up: Behind the Scenes of the Most Famous “Experiment” in International Development History

2 Comments / Design and Analysis of Experiments / December 14, 2016 December 23, 2016

Hello! I’m William Faulkner, Director of Flux, an M&E consultancy based in New Orleans. I want to pull back the curtain on perhaps the most famous experiment in international development history – the one conducted by Washington DC’s IFPRI on Mexico’s largest anti-poverty program, PROGRESA (now Prospera). The Down-Low: Basically, the mainstream narrative of this …

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Ed Eval TIG Week: Tiffany Berry and Dana Wanzer on the Importance of Measuring Participants’ Reasons for Being in the Program

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / December 1, 2016 November 25, 2016

Hello! We are Dana Linnell Wanzer, evaluation doctoral student, and Tiffany Berry, research associate professor, from Claremont Graduate University. Today we are going to discuss why you should measure participants’ motivation for joining or continuing to attend a program. Sometimes, randomization in our impact evaluations is not possible. When this happens, there are issues of …

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OPEN Week: Adrienne Zell on Evaluation for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 4, 2013 June 4, 2013

My name is Adrienne Zell and I work as an internal evaluator for the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute, an organization that provides services to biomedical researchers at Oregon Health and Science University. I also volunteer as the executive director of a small nonprofit, Impactivism, which provides evaluation advice to community organizations. I have …

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