Feedback from participants included:
1. Presented a set of clear principles around which you can think about causality and the evidence required for understanding impacts of a program. Acknowledges the politics and practicalities involved too!
2. An excellent presentation with a good balance of theory and practice.
3. Scott has a lovely way of presenting, very calm, inspires confidence. The content was engaging and everyone got involved in the discussions.
4. Scott's expertise/domain knowledge together with his great people skills/approachable manner made for a valuable and really engaging session.
5. Pacing was excellent. Good balance between content and interactions with chat and oral questions, and good moderation of questions.
6. Fruitful, organic and dynamic conversations among the group, facilitated well by Scott with intellectually robust content, backed by reputable literature.
by Scott Bayley
Experiments and Quasi-Experiments: Understanding Causality and the Evidence Requirements for Evaluating Outcomes with Scott Bayley
Published on, 11 Feb, 2025
At the request of the Australian Evaluation Society Scott delivered a
workshop on the evidence requirements for evaluating program
outcomes.
Scott Bayley holds a master’s degree in public policy majoring in evaluation and social measurement and is a Fellow of the Australian Evaluation Society.
Prior to having his own consultancy Scott held senior evaluation specialist positions with Oxford Policy Management, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, AusAID, the Asian Development Bank, the Victorian Auditor General’s Office, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.
As an evaluation expert, Scott also served as an adviser to the United Nations Secretariat on performance measurement; the Evaluation Capacity Development Group in Geneva; UNICEF; UNDP; Valuing Voices: Sustainable Solutions; and the world’s peak evaluation body, the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation.
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