Using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Interactive Engagement Tool to Frame Postgraduate Evaluation Education Discussions on Perspectives and Meaning
Webinar (em inglês) | Online
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Organizado por:
CREST
Sobre o evento
How can AI-powered tools be used effectively in evaluation education and other evaluation engagements? If you’re interested in the answer to this question, this presentation will discuss the use of an AI interactive engagement tool in class with the CREST Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) students.
This session will:
1) Introduce the AI interactive engagement tool used - Google’s Quick, Draw! (https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/), an artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning research experiment that uses user input to train a neural network to recognize drawings (Google, 2025).
2) Give participants an overview of how this tool is used as an engaging starter activity to frame class discussions around perspectives and meaning in the compulsory M&E PGD module on Clarificatory Evaluation.
3) Discuss how the tool is used specifically in relation to programme descriptions and theories of change (ToC) and how evaluators discover, outline and document what they and other stakeholders know about a specific programme and how it aims to make change happen. It also works as a way to introduce the usefulness of relevant AI-powered tools in facilitating evaluation engagements.
4) Explore how this tool encourages reflection on the value of representation in evaluations of a wide variety of perspectives on what programmes do and aim to change.
This presentation will be relevant to other M&E lecturers who are thinking about using or currently experimenting with interactive engagement tools in their classes and to evaluators looking for interactive engagement tools to use directly in their own work.
References
Farmer, J. 2018. Conversations to have when designing a program: Fostering evaluative thinking. Available at: https://www.betterevaluation.org/blog/conversations-have-when-designing-program-fostering-evaluative-thinking
Google. 2025. About this game. Available at: https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/
This session will:
1) Introduce the AI interactive engagement tool used - Google’s Quick, Draw! (https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/), an artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning research experiment that uses user input to train a neural network to recognize drawings (Google, 2025).
2) Give participants an overview of how this tool is used as an engaging starter activity to frame class discussions around perspectives and meaning in the compulsory M&E PGD module on Clarificatory Evaluation.
3) Discuss how the tool is used specifically in relation to programme descriptions and theories of change (ToC) and how evaluators discover, outline and document what they and other stakeholders know about a specific programme and how it aims to make change happen. It also works as a way to introduce the usefulness of relevant AI-powered tools in facilitating evaluation engagements.
4) Explore how this tool encourages reflection on the value of representation in evaluations of a wide variety of perspectives on what programmes do and aim to change.
This presentation will be relevant to other M&E lecturers who are thinking about using or currently experimenting with interactive engagement tools in their classes and to evaluators looking for interactive engagement tools to use directly in their own work.
References
Farmer, J. 2018. Conversations to have when designing a program: Fostering evaluative thinking. Available at: https://www.betterevaluation.org/blog/conversations-have-when-designing-program-fostering-evaluative-thinking
Google. 2025. About this game. Available at: https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/
Orador/a
| Nome | Título | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Sarah Goodier | Lecturer | Sarah Goodier is a Lecturer in M&E at CREST. In this role, Sarah supports M&E PGDip and MPhil students through various teaching activities as well as conducting research. Sarah holds an MPhil in Programme Evaluation. |