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Abdala, E.
Guide to impact assessment in youth training programmes

Montevideo: CINTERFOR, 2004. 152p.

Bibliography: p. 147-150
ISBN 92-9088-1175-5

(Full text available only in Spanish pdf format)

 

The main purpose of this guide is to serve as a practical tool to facilitate the assessment processes of programmes that contribute to solve the unemployment problem of disadvantaged youth.

Methodologically speaking, the guide takes different approaches: What is being measured? How is it measured? When is it measured? Who is measuring? For how long will measuring be done? In this way the advantages and disadvantages of different methodological options are made explicit through subsequent trial-error confrontations with reality. The aim is to be able to object or answer back the results of the assessment.

The assessment strategy included in the guide's design reflects the conceptual and methodological complexity that is natural to these Programmes that often have several dimensions, variables and indicators. The guide ventures a global orientation, that can be individualized in each case, with practical applications in local contexts.

Throughout the guide it is said that the contents of each particular Programme should promote creativity linked to the knowledge of the reality in which we work, without forgetting methodological rigor in the measurement of figures related to the objectives of the Programme, thus producing reliable data that can be the basis for the adjustment of policies.

Finally, if the guide fulfils the objective of enhancing the assessment skills of trainers, then it will help to adapt Programmes according to integrality, importance and relevance by means of institutional strengthening.

 

CONTENTS

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1

Assessment background to youth training programmes

1.1. General aspects

1.2. Revision of the assessment and evaluation methodologies employed.

1.3. Lessons learned regarding assessment processes of training programmes.

Chapter 2

Impact assessment: types, theoretical models and technical process

2.1. The concept of assessment

2.2. Types of assessment

2.3. Life cycle of the process

2.4. Impact assessment

2.4.1. Concept
2.4.2. Usefulness
2.4.3. Technical process

2.4.3.1. Decision-making and organisational structuring
2.4.3.2. Building a frame of reference
2.4.3.3. Selecting assessors and planning assessment
2.4.3.4. Implementation and management

CIPP Theoretical model
Responding model

2.4.3.5. Dissemination of results
2.4.3.6. Technical process of impact assessment

Chapter 3

Impact measuring

3.1. The concept of variable

3.2. Types of variable

3.3. Assessment variables

3.3.1. Identifying impact assessment variables
3.3.2. How is impact measured?

3.3.2.1.On beneficiaries

Employment variable
Income variable
Citizen role variable
Accounting for the wellbeing variable and its components
Data obtained from qualitative methods

3.3.2.2.On the government
3.3.2.3.On entrepreneurs
3.3.2.4.On ECAS (awarding training entities)
3.3.2.5.Global or general impact

3.4. Universe and samples

Annex 1

3.5. How it is measured: the tools employed to measure impact

3.5.1. Quantitative methodology

3.5.1.1. General aspects
3.5.1.2. Tools of quantitative methodology

3.5.2. Qualitative methodology

3.5.2.1. General aspects
3.5.2.2. Tools of qualitative methodology

3.5.3. Combined methodology

Annex 2

3.6. Tools for beneficiaries and the control group

3.7. Tools for the government

3.8. Tools for entrepreneurs

3.9.Tools for ECAS

Chapter 4

Practical application of the guide in a simulated case in order to measure the impact on youth, governments, enterprises and ECAS

4.1. Describing a simulated population for the practical application of impact assessment

4.2. Measuring the impact of the programme on graduates

4.2.1. Measuring the impact on the employment variable

4.2.1.1. Measuring the impact on the labour insertion variable
4.2.1.2. Measuring the impact on the labour satisfaction variable
4.2.1.3. Measuring the impact on the type of job variable
4.2.2. Measuring the impact on the income variable
4.2.3. Measuring the impact on the citizen role variable
4.2.4. Summary and measure of the global impact on the wellbeing variable
4.2.5. Measuring the impact on graduates, according to qualitative data

4.3. Measuring the impact of the project on other actors

4.3.1. Measuring the impact on the government
4.3.2. Measuring the impact on entrepreneurs
4.3.3. Measuring the impact of the project on ECAS

Introduction to experimental and quasi-experimental methods for the assessment of training programmes

Rafael Diez de Medina

1. Introduction
2. The central problem of assessment
3. Main features to be analysed in programme assessment
4. Selection bias
5. Typology of formal assessment methods
6. Experimental methods
7. Quasi-experimental methods
8. Conclusion
9. Bibliography

Bibliography

 

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