Reporting and Presenting Results

This course equips students with a foundational understanding of evaluations, effective communication strategies to ensure real-world impact, and playbooks to effectively incorporate learnings into their professional work. Students will discover various evaluation report formats, gain tactical frameworks to design audience-specific evaluation formats across sectors, learn from real-world case studies, and engage with their cohort of students. The course is focused on practical implementation and will emphasize integrating theoretical concepts into the real world with practical tools such as checklists and rubrics.
 
The course builds on the evaluation skills and knowledge you have gained from Program Design for Monitoring and Evaluation and Methods courses. Students will present a product to the class during the final session. This will be an abbreviated formal evaluation report of a real-life program or intervention, or one of the student's own choosing, featuring key sections of an evaluation report that incorporates best practices from course readings and discussions. Additional material covered in this course includes a brief overview of the following: data visualization, presentation and persuasion, and a summary of the knowledge gained throughout the spectrum of the courses.
 
This course combines what was learned during the previous courses in the program and adds critical concepts and toolkits not yet covered. The primary work product is to reflect an understanding of key reporting and presenting practices to maximize the real world impact of evaluations.
 
COURSE TOPICS
 

• Intro to Evaluation Reports
• Strategic communications planning
• Stakeholder engagement
• Intro to innovative Data Visualization
• Real-time visualizations (Dashboards, online reporting tools, innovations in Evaluation reporting)

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