Leading Successful Programs - Using Evidence to Assess Effectiveness Harvard University

Overview

What you will study

• In all organizations, managers like you are under increasing pressure to prove their programs—and, by extension, their leadership—are effective. 
• But what constitutes reliable and valid evidence of effectiveness and how can it be generated to assess a program’s effectiveness? What data should be collected? How should managers use it?

Learning Outcomes 

In its goal to help you understand how to measure and evaluate program effectiveness, this one-week Leading Successful Programs - Using Evidence to Assess Effectiveness program from Harvard University will equip you with:

• A framework for thinking about various types of evidence—from benchmarking and performance measurement to impact evaluation—and their relationship to one another.

• Methods for analyzing administrative data to identify potential points for intervention to improve long-term goals.

• Tools to measure the effectiveness of your program as well as strategies for generating short- and longer-term assessments of the impact of your programs on participants.

• Tactics for integrating qualitative and quantitative data to assess a program's effectiveness.

• A deeper understanding of how to make decisions about the best way to spend your limited research budget.