In recent years, there has been a growing interest in establishing evidence standards, and with an increasing focus on assessing the quality of evidence for case-based or qualitative approaches to evaluation. Developing and using such standards can help to build greater confidence in qualitative evidence and help users to make sense of large volumes of data within or across projects.
The course uses a mixture of brief presentations and action learning approaches, with an introduction to the rationale for evidence rubrics and their theoretical/analytic foundations alongside practical group work exercises to support participants to develop rubrics on key evaluative criteria.
Who is this for?
Evaluation commissioners, researchers, and evaluators (generally with 5+ years’ experience)
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session, participants will:
- Understand key criteria and standards to assess evidence quality, particularly for more qualitative and case-based approaches to evaluation
- Understand why those criteria and standards are credible, important, and useful
- Be able to put this understanding into practice to select relevant criteria and develop appropriate standards
- Understand how to develop rubrics across projects for portfolio-level analysis
About the trainers
Independent Consultant. He has 16 years’ experience working in evaluation. Among other consultancies, he has provided advice, training, and carried out evaluations for the World Bank, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), World Vision, and the International Budget Partnership (IBP).
A human ecologist with 20 years’ experience working directly with marginalised communities in international development, Marina is currently Research Fellow at IDS (a core member of the Centre for Development Impact), the impact and evaluation lead for the Tomorrow’s Cities UKRI GCRF Hub and director of evaluation and learning for FCDO-funded CLARISSA programme.
Both are skilled and experienced trainers and facilitators of research and evaluation methods and approaches.