Evaluation training courses
Updated 4 July 2022
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There are now a sizeable number of evaluation courses. We have listed some in this document, as a service to the evaluation community. Note that we have not necessarily tested all these courses.
If you run or have been on a good evaluation training programme that you would like to list here, please contact etf@cabinetoffice.gov.uk.
1. Civil Service
- Introduction to policy evaluation for analysts
- Introduction to policy evaluation for policy and delivery officials
2. BSG
- Evidence in public policy
3. Bond
- Introduction to monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning
- Theory of change essentials online
- Impact assessment and evaluation
- Planning and practice in monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning
- Tools and methods for monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning
4. Social Research Association (SRA)
- Qualitative Data Analysis
- Impact Evaluation
- Conducting Focus Groups
- Questionnaire Design
- Data Visualisation
- Narratives And Storytelling
- Qualitative Interviewing
- Theory-Based Evaluation
5. Cemmap
- https://www.cemmap.ac.uk/courses/
- Policy Evaluation methods
- Reproducible Econometrics Using R
6. NatCen Social Research
- Analysis of qualitative data
- Introduction to evidence reviews
- Introduction to qualitative research
- Designing and moderating focus groups
- Reporting qualitative data
- (Non-)probability survey samples in scientific practice
- Questionnaire design
7. Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN)
- Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation: Training and Support
- Design, delivery and support on systems thinking and complexity-sensitive evaluation methods and approaches
Find CECAN Ltd training courses and CECAN resources related to the content of Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Supplementary Guide to the Magenta Book.
8. NCRM
- Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) for quantitative social researchers
9. UK Evaluation Society
- Various evaluation training and professional development
Find UKES training and professional development.
10. Other evaluation training
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Strategy and Evidence: Value-for-Money.
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INTRAC: Monitoring and Evaluation Systems.
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Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab: J-PAL courses.
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University of East Anglia: MSc in Impact Evaluation.
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London International Development Centre (LIDC): Evaluation: from Innovation to Impact.
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Evaluation.org: training, masterclasses and webinars on topics including Process Tracing, Bayesian Updating (Diagnostic Theory-Based Evaluation), Qualitative, Comparative Analysis (QCA), Discourse Analysis, and Ethics in Everyday Evaluation Practice.
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LSR: Policy evaluation.