Evaluating Impact Training Module 3: Making Meaning from your Data - analysing the stories and statistics

Evaluating Impact Training Programme is aimed at project staff, service leads, evaluation teams and funders in the public and community & voluntary /non-profit sectors who are delivering services to benefit communities and want to demonstrate the impact of their work.

It has been designed for those who need to understand the basics of evaluation and for those who need skills to design impact measurement frameworks, collect and analyse relevant data and report on the findings.

In the third of 4 modules this training course will build on the learning from 'Module 1: An introduction to Evaluation - Understanding the Essentials' and 'Module 2: The Nuts and Bolts of Evaluation - what to evaluate and how'. You will find out how to analyse the data you collect - both qualitative and quantitative, and understand what it is telling you.

What will be covered in this module?

• Introduction to Quantitative data

• Steps in quantitative data analysis

• Introduction to Qualitative data

• Steps in qualitative data analysis

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Who is it suited to?

This module is suitable for project staff, service leads and evaluation teams who work with data collected via evaluation.

What will I learn?

• An understanding of how qualitative research differs from quantitative research

• Step-by-step description of conducting simple descriptive analyses of your quantitative data in MS Excel  

• Experience with coding and developing themes from qualitative data (stories), and making sense of what they are telling you.

You will develop the skills needed to analyse and make sense of your quantitative and qualitative data.

Next steps

You can access the training here: https://eco-training.moodlecloud.com/

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You can also sign up for the other 3 modulesto take advantage of our bundle offer.

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Module 1: An introduction to evaluation -understanding the essentials

Module 2: The Nuts and Bolts of Evaluation - what to evaluate and how

Module 3: Making meaning from your data - analysing the stories and statistics

Module 4: Telling the Story of Your Data - communicating your findings to target audiences

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If you have any questions please contact us at: ECOtraining@effectiveservices.org