Learning Objectives
- What is evaluation research? How does it relate to academic research?
- What are the benefits of evaluation research for the evaluand, implementation teams, and society at large?
- What are formative, process, outcomes or impact evaluations, and transformative evaluations? What methods do evaluators use to carry out these evaluations?
- What major ethical considerations do evaluators need to take into account? What are the guiding principles that evaluators must follow?