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Evaluation Essentials: Methods for Conducting Sound Research
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2nd ed. (2025), x, 198 pp.
"This nuts-and-bolts introduction to program evaluation is also applicable to evaluation of policies and evaluation of organizational performance. It is rich with over 40 examples from public policy, public health, non-profit management, social work, arts management, education, international assista
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Impact Evaluation in International Development: Theory, Methods and Practice
Key Guidance
Washington, DC: World Bank (2022), xix, 401 pp.
"This book is written to provide detailed, rigorous guidance on how to conduct impact evaluations of government and nongovernment programs and projects. It covers all the leading quantitative impact evaluation methods, explaining the assumptions required for them to provide unbiased estimates and th
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Program Evaluation: Methods and Case Studies
New York: Routledge, 9th ed. (2019), viii, 333 pp.
"This text provides a solid foundation in program evaluation, covering the main components of evaluating agencies and their programs, how best to address those components, and the procedures to follow when conducting evaluations. Different models and approaches are paired with practical techniques,
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Randomised Control Trials
INTRAC (2017), 6 pp.
"In a Randomised Control Trial (RCT) different units are randomly assigned to separate groups. One group receives a development intervention and the other does not. Changes in the two groups over time are then compared to accurately measure the effect of the intervention. RCTs have been much debated
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Quasi-Experimental Approaches
INTRAC (2017), 6 pp.
"Experimental approaches work by comparing changes in a group that receives a development intervention with a group that does not. The difference is then attributed to the intervention. In a full experimental approach, units are randomly allocated to two groups – one that receives the intervention
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Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 4th ed. (2015), xl, 864 pp.
"The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation provides tools for managers and evaluators to address questions about the performance of public and nonprofit programs. Neatly integrating authoritative, high-level information with practicality and readability, this guide gives you the tools and process
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Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)
Florence: UNICEF (2014), 11 pp.
"A randomized controlled trial (RCT) is a way of doing impact evaluation in which the population receiving the programme or policy intervention is chosen at random from the eligible population, and a control group is also chosen at random from the same eligible population. It tests the extent to whi
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Running Randomized Evaluations: A Practical Guide
Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press (2013), x, 467 pp.
This book provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs. Drawing on the experience of researchers at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which has run hundreds of such evaluations in dozens of countries throughout the world, it offer
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Democracy, Governance and Randomised Media Assistance
Top Insights
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 26 pp.
"This paper focuses attention on randomised field experiments in the developing world that explicitly address the use of media to achieve democracy and governance (DG) outcomes [...] The first section describes the growth of DG assistance and the increasing interest in DG field experiments. The seco
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Impact Evaluation in Practice
Washington, DC: World Bank (2011), xvi, 244 pp.
"This book offers an accessible introduction to the topic of impact evaluation and its practice in development. Although the book is geared principally toward development practitioners and policy makers, we trust that it will be a valuable resource for students and others interested in impact evalua
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Impact Evaluation in Practice
Washington, DC: World Bank (2011), xvi, 244 pp.
"This book off ers an accessible introduction to the topic of impact evaluation and its practice in development. Although the book is geared principally toward development practitioners and policy makers, we trust that it will be a valuable resource for students and others interested in impact evalu
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Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practices
Washington, DC: World Bank (2010), xx, 239 pp.
"This book reviews quantitative methods and models of impact evaluation, presenting an analysis of the quantitative research underlying recent programme evaluations and case studies prepared for a series of impact evaluation workshops in different countries, sponsored by the World Bank Institute (WB
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Monitoring and Evaluating Social Programs in Developing Countries: A Handbook for Policymakers, Managers, and Researchers
Washington, DC: World Bank (1994), xxviii, 519 pp.
"This book provides a comprehensive review of the available techniques for monitoring and evaluating social programs. Specifically the book discusses: (a) methods of evaluating social and economic projects; (b) methods for participatory and rapid assessment; (c) quasi-experimental designs; and (d) t
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