USAID Eval Policy/ADS 203
Evaluation Questions
Evaluation Timing
Misc. Evaluation Knowledge
Potpourri
100
Accountability and learning
What are the main purposes of evaluation according to ADS?
100
No more than this number of evaluation questions is recommended for any one evaluation.
What are five to eights questions?
100
Baseline assessments are important for these three different tasks.
What are performance monitoring, performance evaluation, and impact evaluation?
100
This is when evaluations should be designed.
What is during project design?
100
These two classmates like to dance like nobody is watching.
Who are Tom and Usman?
200
These are the two types of projects for which evaluations are required, according to ADS.
What are for large projects and pilot projects?
200
Performance evaluations are best for answering these two types of evaluation questions according to ADS.
What are descriptive and normative questions?
200
This type of evaluation is best for measuring the sustainability of results.
What are post-endline evaluations?
200
Use and users are the two key components of this.
What is the evaluation purpose?
200
These two tolerate their San Francisco Giant fan friends
Who are Chikondi and Kate?
300
According to ADS, these evaluations seek to attribute results to a specific intervention.
What are impact evaluations?
300
This type of evaluation question is not recommended because it asks more than one question and is, therefore, not researchable.
What are double-barreled questions?
300
These types of evaluations allow you to adjust your project or activity during implementation and are ongoing and engrained in the project/activity.
What are developmental evaluations?
300
These have a rigorously defined counterfactual.
What are impact evaluations?
300
She surrounds herself with artists
Who is Lela?
400
Performance evaluations are best for answering these two types of evaluation questions according to ADS.
What are descriptive and normative questions?
400
These questions compare "what is" to "what should be."
What are cause-and-effect questions?
400
This type of evaluations helps you to form your project design and usually occurs before implementation or very early on during implementation.
What are formative evaluations?
400
This is the type of evaluation that might best help USAID education officers to fulfill the education strategy requirement for selectivity (to assess need or donor division of labor).
What are formative evaluations?
400
These two course participants had near-death experiences in Mozambique.
Who are Rosa and Carien?
500
These are three of the things that ADS 203 says are the responsibility of operating units.
What are: - To identify a POC - To develop an annual inventory of evaluations for the next year, including a budget - To devote at least 3 percent of annual budget to evaluations - To ensure (through program office) quality SOWs and eval reports - To ensure submission of reports to DEC and warehousing of data - And to integrate evaluation findings into decision making?
500
These are at least three best practices in designing evaluation questions.
What are: - Keeping the number of questions to a minimum (5-8 key questions max) - Making sure the questions are aligned directly with the purpose (be honest with the purpose) - Considering the needs and uses of various stakeholders - Ensuring questions are answerable - Prioritizing questions - Including questions on age or gender dynamics (to the extent they will be used) - Asking how, why, and to what extent questions?
500
These are three of the things you might want to consider when deciding whether to collect data at the beginning or end of the school year.
What are: - The purpose of the evaluation - The outcomes you are measuring - When the intervention occurs - Whether you are following the same students overtime or assessing different students in the same grade - Whether you want to measure retention of results over the summer - How data collection will affect regular class schedules or other timing issues (for national exams, dry season, etc.)?
500
These are two things you might want to collect data on outside of the typical inputs, outputs, outcomes, impacts, assumptions.
What are contextual factors and demographic characteristics?
500
Bring drinks without lids to class, eat food in class, write with permanent markers, and/or use tape on the walls.
What things should you not do at the Washington learning Center?
M
e
n
u