Evaluation Summer Institute: Evaluation Principles and Practice
8 – 13 July 2010 (5 full days)
London Metropolitan University
INTRODUCTION
This intensively delivered course covers evaluation of programmes, policies and institutions and a range of policy contexts, professions and agencies. Topics include:
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Purposes of evaluation - formative, summative, process, impact
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Commissioning, planning and designing evaluation
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Different approaches and methods
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Evaluation in a globalised society
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Democratic, participatory evaluation
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Evaluation in an evidence-based, audit/accountability culture
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The politics and ethics of evaluation
This course can be taken as a stand alone module or as part of a Post Graduate Certificate, Diploma or MA in Evaluation, for which other specialized modules and a thesis are required. A central feature of the course will be the generation of an evaluation design of a policy or programme in the participant’s context or workplace. Participants will have the
opportunity to develop their designs during the module with support from mentors and peers.
We work with a maximum group of 20 people to ensure that all participants can benefit from the course, have time to share ideas and learning with peers and make the most of expert contributors working with them. Methods of teaching will be primarily workshop based, with plenty of scope for discussion and relating to participants’ contexts and needs. Participants are welcomed from the UK and internationally.
THE VENUE
The course takes place at the University’s Graduate Centre, 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB. The Graduate Centre liberates modern university architecture from its redbrick, tower block image, away from a tradition of functionality over form. The building is one of the most exciting new developments in London, and was designed by the internationally renowned architect, Daniel Libeskind, whose portfolio includes the Jewish Museum in Berlin, and the redevelopment of the World Trade Centre site in New York.
International Development Evaluation: Foundations and Practices
5 – 9 July 2010 (5 full days)
King's College London