Rapid Programme Assessment Report

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer N. on August 20, 2009 at 9:43am

pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNACY930.pdf

This might be a good starting point.

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Permalink Reply by Anna Fisher on October 24, 2009 at 2:58am

Thankyou so much for your help it looks good
all the best
Anna

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Permalink Reply by James S. Oppenheim on August 20, 2009 at 4:44pm

Anna--for having an appropriate education, you may have all the tools you need, so I pose this, perhaps, as a reminder:

Extrinsic motivation and observable/measurable goals : by-whens, milestones, end-states.

Intrinsic motivation and detectable data : attitudes, beliefs, behaviors extant --> preferred world view / discrepency.

That's a little bit of telegraphy or shorthand from my social science days, but the basic concepts could be expressed in simile as "How is work going on the bridge?" and "how has working on the bridge changed you?"

If you can describe State "A" in both concrete terms and psychological dimensions, you have got the basis for discrepency analysis, and that, of course, is assessment.

I've borrowed also here from screenwriter Michael Hague who to effect change in a character's stance provides an interesting emotional problem: for a character to get something he wants, which Hague would place in the extrinsic motivation bin, the character may have to overcome something in himself (intrinsic motivation) to do that.

--Jim

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Permalink Reply by Anna Fisher on November 1, 2009 at 3:59am

Thanks Jim, I just wanted to let you know that work on the bridge is going well!
All the best
Anna

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