1. STRENGTHENING QUALITY: REFLECTION ON DESIGN 26 October 2017

2. Purpose
Reflect on different quantitative evaluation designs: using education case studies

3. Who are we Who We Are Evidence based/Evaluation is key
Dedicated focus on MSL
Evidence based/Evaluation is key
Independent Grant Maker
Who are we

4. There is no magic bullet
Education interventions are complex and solutions are equally complex: multiple factors interacting in multiple ways
Cant be sure what works without systematic enquiry
There is no magic bullet
Often faced with slow and incremental changes over a long to medium term: success is not always visible
Why is evaluation important in education environments

5. What do we use evaluations for?
Reflective capability
Foreground learning
Allows us to speak from an informed basis
Gives us the courage to stop something if we know that it is not working

6. We have evolved our monitoring and evaluation practices
to improving the role and quality of Evaluation to influence education practices/polices
20+ years
We have evolved our monitoring and evaluation practices

7. Learning from Evaluation Design Evaluation Design is critically important Today we focus quantitative evaluation design Agnostic about design. Design and methodology follow evaluation questions that are being asked

8. Todays session
Engage with three different quantitative designs used to evaluate three Zenex supported projects
What evaluation questions
What design
Why the specific design
Challenges of the design
Format of session:
3 case study presentations
Comments from respondents
Discussion