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Filter search resultsMaking rigorous causal claims in a real-life context: Has research contributed to sustainable forest management?
This article presents an example of a rigorous non-counterfactual causal analysis that describes how different evidence and methods were used together for causal inference without a control group or comparison group.ResourceSketchnoting 101: How to create awesome visual notes
This guide by Matthew Magain outlines his process and tips for creating sketch-notes (what BetterEvaluation calls graphic recordings).ResourceSketcho frenzy: The basics of visual note-taking
This is a short (3-minute) video by Claudine Delfin about the benefits of visual note-taking. It's also a good example of a video that has been created from a visual note-taking process.ResourceClearing the fog: new tools for improving the credibility of impact claims
This IIED Briefing Paper shows that the methods of process tracing and Bayesian updating can facilitate a dialogue between theory and evidence that allows for the assessing of the degree of confidence in ‘contribution claims’ iResourceAssessing the Policy Impact of ‘Indicators’: A Process-Tracing Study of the Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index
This report applies a process-tracing approach to understand the policy impact of indicators and contributes to debates about assessing the impact of development research.ResourceComparative Hypothesis Testing Via Process Tracing
This article by by Ingo Rohlfing argues that the understanding of the doubly decisive test is misleading and that it lumps together the criteria of uniqueness and contradiction.Extract AbstractResourceGoing Where the Money Is: Strategies for Taxing Economic Elites in Unequal Democracies
This paper by Tasha Fairfield asks how policymakers can get around obstacles that prevent taxing economic elites.ResourceRethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards (Second Edition)
This second edition of Rethinking Social Inquiry has the aim of redirecting ongoing discussions of methodology in social and political science.ResourceStraws-in-the-wind, Hoops and Smoking Guns: What can Process Tracing Offer to Impact Evaluation?
This discussion paper, written by Melanie Punton and Katharina Welle, looks at the potential use of Process Tracing in an impact evaluation context.ResourceProcess tracing: Introduction and exercises
This document provides an overview of the method of process tracing and a series of examples and exercises to aid in its teaching .ResourceTalking about visuals: A discussion with graphic recorder Katherine Haugh
Often referred to as 'visual note-taking', graphic recording is a method that merges data collection and reporting to create a visual record of a discussion.BlogGraphic recording
Graphic recording is the translation of conversations into images and text on large sheets of paper during meetings and events.Method