Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review is the only journal on global education published in the island of Ireland. It features contributions from practitioners in a range of education settings based in Ireland, the United Kingdom, across Europe, North America and the developing world. It is in its fifth year of operation, and is now available as an open-access online publication to increase accessibility and global reach. It aims to widen the global education sector’s understanding of the delivery and effectiveness of development education at local and international levels.
11Monitoring & Evaluation
Autumn 2010
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Introduction
Research is an everyday practice in our lives. We explore the multitudes of options when buying car insurance; we read about our holiday destination and the history of the tourist attractions there; we assess the value and usefulness of a product to our lifestyle. The most commonly cited example of research in development education is evaluation work. Formative evaluation can greatly add to the impact of development education programmes as it is implemented during their runtime, while summative evaluation provides a written account of the work completed. In addition, some funding programmes making evaluation an obligatory requirement.
While evaluation shares some commonality with monitoring, there is also a key difference in their overall purpose. Both address programme performance, centring on the achievement of goals and objectives; however, monitoring concerns itself with operational and administrative issues, whereas evaluation is...
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