Professional Development

Evaluation Design: Alignment with Evaluation Objectives

The Evaluators' Institute

Training Signup Due Date: 11/02/25

Name of Agency or Organization: The Evaluators' Institute

Opportunity Description

Design is the structure, the recipe that is used to assess program progress, outcomes, and impact. This course focuses on design decisions and their alignment with evaluation questions; the strength of evidence expected from the evaluation, the resources that are available to support the evaluation, as well as practical considerations in conducting the evaluation study. Design choice speaks to validity –the evaluator’s ability to draw conclusions in terms of the cause and effect or association between the program and its outcomes (internal validity), and to generalize outcome probability to broader samples/populations (external validity). The course highlights design advantages and disadvantages, the advancement of adaptive randomization, and identifies when best to use specific design approaches, as well as the need to build a rationale for selecting a particular design approach. Participants will have the opportunity to select designs and build rationales for design choice across international and domestic case examples that will be used throughout the course.

Register by November 2, 2025

Cost

The price of this course is $1700

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