Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
A report for World Vision, by Rick Davies and Tracey Delaney, Cambridge and Melbourne, March 2011. Available as pdf
Background to this review
"This review was undertaken by two monitoring and evaluation consultants, both with prior experience in the use of the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique. The review was commissioned by ...
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Monday, June 6th, 2011
Governance and Social Development Resource Centre. Issues Paper by Sabine Garbarino and Jeremy Holland March 2009
1 Introduction
There has been a renewed interest in impact evaluation in recent years amongst development agencies and donors. Additional attention was drawn to the issue recently by a Center for Global Development (CGD) report calling ...
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Friday, February 18th, 2011
by Nigel Edwards, Strategic Communications Management Vol. 15, Issue 2, Feb-March 2011. pages 30-33. Available from Cognitive Edge website, and found via a tweet by David Snowden
[RD comment| This article is about the collation, analysis and use of a large volume of qualitative data, and as such has relevance to ...
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Monday, October 11th, 2010
The Guardian & Barclays funded and AMREF implemented, Katine Community Partnerships Project in Soroti District, Uganda is exceptional in some respects and all too common in others.
It is exceptional in the degree to which its progress has been very publicly monitored since it began in October 2007. Not only have ...
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Quantifying qualitative outcomes from people’s own analysis. Insights for results-based management from the experience of a social movement in Bangladesh Dee Jupp Sohel Ibn Ali with contribution from Carlos Barahona 2010: Sida Studies in Evaluation. Download pdf
Preamble
Participation has been widely taken up as an essential element of development, but participation ...
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
David McDonald, Gabriele Bammer, Peter Deane, 2009 Download pdf
Ed: Although about "research integration" the book is also very relevant to the planning and evaluation of development projects
"Research on real-world problems—like restoration of wetlands, the needs of the elderly, effective disaster response and the future of the airline industry—requires ...
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
James Wainberg , Thomas Kida, James F. Smith
March 12, 2010 Download pdf copy
Abstract:
Prior research in psychology and communications suggests that decision makers are biased by anecdotal data, even in the presence of more informative statistical data. A bias for anecdotal data can ...
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Card sorting is a simple and useful means of eliciting and aggregating qualitative data, in a participatory manner. Card sorting is also known as pile sorting, in the field of Cognitive Anthropology. This post will try to accumulate a list of documents on this subject.
How to Sort, by Harloff and ...
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Date: October 19 - 24, 2009
Venue: Ottawa, Canada
Registration Deadline - October 1 Classes are filling up -- so call us to hold space for you
TEI and CES Collaborative Program
This October, 2009, the Canadian Evaluation Society, National Capital Chapter (CES-NCC) and The Evaluators' Institute (TEI) will continue their collaboration to bring ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
By Aldo Benini
"The purpose of this paper is to add simple productivity tools for text analysis, by publicizing existing ones and by adding one that I created. “Simple” is a relative term. As the diagram in the Summary ...
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