Evaluating the Impact of Training and Institutional Development Programs: A Collaborative Approach. EDI Learning Resources Series. SUNY Series, Teacher Preparation and Development.

The cumulative experience of impact evaluations carried out by the Economic Development Institute (EDI), its partner institutions, and practitioners around the world demonstrates that involving decisionmakers and potential users of evaluation information in the various phases of the evaluation including definining its purpose and objectives, developing key indicators of impact, collecting and interpreting data, and formulating recommendations, can lead to valid and useful evaulation results and contribute to organizational learning. EDI has created this manual to provide systematic, useful, and collaborative impact evaluations to improve organizational learning.