Masterclass: Thinking and Acting Evaluatively: Forging Programmatic Impact and Organizational Change

• Synopsis: This masterclass session is a dialogue between two core faculty members the M&E Concentration and M&E Certificate in IDCE, Professors Laurie Ross, and David Bell. The dialogue is intended to highlight a range of perspectives and paradigms that permeate the M&E field through a discussion of two M&E projects or cases.  The dialogue also aims to highlight the conceptual core of the M&E Concentration and the M&E Certificate program, at Clark and in IDCE.

Monitoring and Evaluation at IDCE teaches about what works (and what doesn’t) in the real world, and about how to apply and integrate evaluative thinking and practice into the design of projects, in order to achieve maximum impact.  We prepare students in the current theory, knowledge, skills, and professional competencies necessary for roles in evaluating programs domestically and internationally. The monitoring and evaluation concentration and certificate ensures that current and aspiring community development and international development practitioners can embrace the multiple perspectives, paradigms, and disciplines when developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating projects, programs and intervention strategies.

• Instructor: David Bell and Laurie Ross
• • Bio: Laurie Ross engages in community-based action research projects in Worcester on topics such as youth and gang violence, youth and young adult homelessness, and youth worker professional education. For the past ten years, Ross has been the Project Director for Clark’s Local Action Research Partnership grant funded by the Massachusetts Office of Public Safety and Security.
  • Bio: David Bell is an international and comparative educationalist and psychologist who has worked extensively in Southern Africa in the field of education, empowerment, social transformation and community development and program evaluation. Since 2004 he has worked as a program monitoring and evaluation consultant for a range of domestic and international organizations and agencies.

• Registration Link:https://gradapply.clarku.edu/register/?id=7798d225-8581-443d-891a-2708203251be