The use of formative and summative assessment data in Honduras

• In Event: LAC READS: Lessons learned on coordination and collaboration around impact evaluation

Abstract

Bridget Drury of American Institutes for Research will share perspectives on integrating into the later stages of an existing project a separate but related new component designed in tandem with a rigorous external evaluation. Issues to be addressed include: design of a rigorous evaluation of an intervention that is not new or unfamiliar nationwide but that has had widespread but uneven implementation; challenges of designing the intervention in a way that makes technical and operational sense for implementation while satisfying the demands of the evaluation; and considering what evaluation data and results will be of most use to MOEs and funders and how to design the intervention and evaluation to obtain it. American Institutes for Research will also address considerations of how the fact that the new component is object of the evaluation impacts implementation relative to implementation of other similar project work that is not being evaluated this way, as well as lessons learned from the first few months of implementation (which starts in January 2015).

Author

• Bridget Drury, American Institutes for Research