Friendly feed-back on our quasi-experimental evaluation

The German national centre for crime prevention (NZK) has published a synthesis of studies on efforts to prevent violent extremism among youth. Our 2015 study on the HEROES project in Berlin (Raab & Stuppert 2015 - unfortunately Wolfgang Stuppert is misspelled in the article) has been lauded for (1) our  definition of a highly relevant central evaluation question which the evaluation could actually answer with methods that we described transparently, and (2) the strengthening of the internal validity of our findings by the use of propensity score matching in quasi-experimental research.

Those who wish to read the full NZK text (in German only) can find it here. A summary of our study is available from this page of the Berlin Senate (in German, too); just download publication BFG Nr.57/2015.

Choosing appropriate evaluation methods

Barbara Befani, a reliable source of high quality information, has held a talk at the Centre for Development Impact on choosing appropriate evaluation methods. Listen to her presentation here; it comes with a slide show that is best watched while listening to the talk.

The spreadsheet which helps choosing appropriate evaluation tools is available from the BOND website here.  Enjoy! And contain your disappointment if you realise that most methods won't work with the weak data and skimpy resources available for your evaluation.