Evaluating Impact - Education Research Paper No. 35, 1999, 262 p.
Table of Contents DFID
Department for International Development Edited by Veronica McKay and
Treffgarne Serial No. 35 Department For International Development EDUCATION RESEARCH EVALUATING IMPACT
Edited by Veronica McKay Carew
Treffgarne Serial No. 35
ISBN: 1 86192 1918 Department For International Development Printed by Production Printers
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ireality@icon.co.za Dedication In Memoriam This collection of papers is dedicated to the memory of our
dear friend and colleague, Professor Cleaver Ota, who passed away while we were
editing the final version of these papers. Professor Cleaver was Director of the Education Policy Unit at
the University of Fort Hare at the time of his passing.
DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION PAPERS
LIST OF
ABBREVIATIONS
Introduction
1. WHAT IS AN IMPACT STUDY AND HOW
SHOULD WE DO IT?
1.1 Participatory impact
assessment
1.2 Participatory action research as
an approach to impact assessment
1.3 Participatory approaches to impact
studies
1.4 Evaluation vs impact
studies
2. THE ROLE OF BASELINE STUDIES IN
IMPACT ASSESSMENT
2.1 School focused baseline
assessments as a catalyst for change
2.2 A general framework for evaluating
educational programmes
2.3 Issues to consider when planning a
baseline study
3. STAKEHOLDER
PERSPECTIVES
3.1 Identifying
stakeholders
3.2 Considering the audience - an
important phase in project evaluations
3.3 Impact studies
and their audiences
4. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NATIONAL AND
EXTERNAL
4.1 A note on a participatory impact
study in Eritrea: exploring the relations between national and external
researchers
4.2 The relationships between national
researchers and external researchers
4.3 lmpact studies: the role of an
insider/outsider
4.4 lmpact assessment in educational
projects: some perspectives on the 'insider outsider' debate
5. TRAINING TEACHERS AS
RESEARCHERS
5.1 Helping teachers to develop
competence criteria for evaluating their professional development
5.2 Combining the teaching of research
methods with an assessment of project impact
6. TOPICALITY VS
SUSTAINABILITY
6.1 A consideration of project
assessment: topicality vs sustainability
6.2 Topicality vs. sustainability in
the evaluation of the South African Book Aid Project
7. IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND
SUSTAINABILITY
7.1 Background to the MAPP
evaluation
7.2 Sustaining Impact: the Mexican
Advanced Professionalisation Project
7.3 Assessing the impact of sector
wide, institutional and policy outcomes
7.4 Determining the unanticipated
outcomes and using these as benchmarks for future projects
8. ANTIClPATED/UNANTICIPATED
OUTCOMES
8.1 Anticipated and unanticipated
project benefits
8.2 The PROSPER lmpact Study: A
consideration of sector wide outcomes
8.3 Research and evaluation in DPEP: A
review of current practices and future strategies in impact
assessment
8.4 Concluding comments from the DFID
Education Division
Participants at the forum on lmpact
Studies
List of sources consulted
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