Beyond Surveys and Experiments - Other Approaches to Impact Evaluation

Date:

21/05/2018 - 25/05/2018

Organised by:

School of International Development, University of East Anglia

Presenter:

Prof Laura Camfield and Dr Barbara Befani

Level:

Intermediate (some prior knowledge)

Contact:

Vanessa Tarling, v.tarling@uea.ac.uk, Tel: 01603 59337

Map:

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Venue:

School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park

Description:

The course is introductory and primarily designed for people who have limited knowledge of evaluation and are beginning to use 'small n' approaches in their work rather than experienced practitioners.

The course will familiarise participants with ‘small n’, qualitative and mixed methods approaches and look at what they need to use them successfully, responding to a recognition that experimental and quasi experimental approaches to evaluation are not always feasible or desirable. This opens a space for alternative, appropriate or ‘small n’ methods and the course explores how to do these rigorously in resource-constrained contexts.

Participants will leave the course able to:

– Understand the current challenges the impact evaluation community is grappling with by learning about ‘small n’ evaluation approaches.

– Understand different approaches to developing a non-experimental evaluation framework that will enable causal inferences to be drawn.

– Understand the value of a theory based approach in establishing and understanding causation.

– Understand the key characteristics of methods such as Process Tracing with Bayesian updating and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), and how they might work for different evaluation questions and contexts.

– Understand what they need to know to select the most appropriate approaches for their evaluation questions in their specific evaluation context.

– Recognise the challenges as well as the benefits of using ‘small n’ approaches, drawing on qualitative and quantitative data.

 

 

 

 

Cost:

£ 1,850

Website and registration:

Region:

East of England

Keywords:

Qualitative Data Handling and Data Analysis

Related publications and presentations:

Qualitative Data Handling and Data Analysis

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