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Online Graduate Certificate in Project Monitoring and Evaluation
Online Graduate Certificate in Project Monitoring and Evaluation
Program Length:
8 months
Credit Hours:
12
Total Classes:
4
Cost per Credit:
$1,427
What are the program
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At a Glance
Lead Communities and Organizations Toward Health and Wellness
Become empowered to make data-driven decisions and support equitable outcomes in four courses over just eight months. Enroll in American University’s online Graduate Certificate in Project Monitoring and Evaluation to gain critical skills in the times that work best for you. With four practicums and career-focused outcomes, the certificate program goes beyond a standard theoretical education to prepare you for a career in evaluation.
Coursework includes four practicum experiences where students partner with organizations to collect qualitative and quantitative data, and plan and carry out real world evaluations. You’ll learn how to design and approach performance and impact evaluations while gaining practical experience in program-based monitoring and evaluation.
Become empowered to make data-driven decisions and support equitable outcomes in four courses over just eight months. Enroll in American University’s online Graduate Certificate in Project Monitoring and Evaluation to gain critical skills in the times that work best for you. With two practicums and career-focused outcomes, the certificate program goes beyond a standard theoretical education to prepare you for a career in evaluation.
Coursework includes two practicum experiences where students partner with organizations to plan and carry out real-world evaluations.
You’ll learn how to design and approach performance and impact evaluations while gaining practical experience in program-based monitoring and evaluation.
You’ll learn from expert faculty with 20 to 30 years of experience in the field who are leaders in the American Evaluators Association, Washington Evaluators, and other local affiliates.
You’ll complete your graduate certificate with the confidence and technical knowledge you need to manage monitoring and evaluation efforts.
You’ll learn how to design and approach performance and impact evaluations while gaining practical experience in program-based monitoring and evaluation.
You’ll complete your graduate certificate with the confidence and technical knowledge you need to manage monitoring and evaluation efforts.
Program Objectives
Optimize Programs and Support Equity with New Skills
Gain the critical skill set necessary to design and implement program-based monitoring and evaluation in education, public health, international development, government, and the private and nonprofit sectors. Complete the program with the technical skills necessary to:
Improve Programs
Create Logic Models and Evaluation Statements of Work (SOWs) to improve the planning, implementation, management, monitoring, and evaluation of projects.
Design Evaluations
Plan performance and impact evaluations using evaluations that support equity.
Collect, Analyze, Visualize Data
Craft data collection instruments and collect, analyze, and visualize qualitative and quantitative data.
Program Rankings
See How We Set the Standard
Since 1980, this innovative program has created leaders in the health promotion industry. A winner of the Distinguished Academic Program Award (DAPA) from the National Wellness Institute, its unique curriculum meets the eligibility requirements for Certified Wellness Practitioner (CWP) certification. It also expertly prepares you to take the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES®) exam — 100% of our graduates who’ve taken the exam in the last five years have passed.
Being a small program, you have the flexibility to choose independent studies and build close connections with students and alumni and be mentored by the same faculty that helped the program win the DAPA award.
2 Practicums
Gain Technical Experience
Learn the Tenets of CREE Culturally Responsive Equitable Evaluation
Career-Focused Curriculum
Developed with Advisory Panel
Admission to American University’s online Graduate Certificate in Project Monitoring and Evaluation program requires an undergraduate degree from an accredited college or university.
Applicants will need to submit:
- Completed Application
- Statement of purpose
- Official transcripts
- Two letters of recommendation
- $55 Application Fee*
- Résumé
*The application fee is typically waived if the application file is complete within a three-week period.
Curriculum Overview
The online Graduate Certificate in Project Monitoring and Evaluation is an experiential, project-oriented program that will give you the technical skills you need to craft monitoring and evaluation systems that measure performance and impact, while supporting equity.
American University constructed the program with an expert advisory panel to offer an experiential degree that teaches core competencies, best-practice standards, and industry trends while building your experience with application-based coursework in each class.
The Measurement & Evaluation Program Advisory Council ensures that the curriculum is current, relevant, and reflective of emerging trends in evaluation. It consists of program faculty, alumni, and top evaluation practitioners who have experience evaluating programs for the public, private, and philanthropy sectors, including:
- U.S. Agency for International Development
- The Department of State
- Various state and local Departments of Education
- Abt Associates
- Ford Foundation
- Open Society
- And more
One of the strongest components of American University’s online Certificate in Project Monitoring and Evaluation is the practicum element, where students partner with organizations to plan and carry out evaluations, including collecting qualitative and quantitative data. All four courses in the program require practicum partnerships.
Practicums can be local or global, owing to new advances in conducting evaluations virtually. To complete your practicums, you’ll identify organizational partners, oftentimes with the assistance of faculty. You could partner with a current or former employer or an organization where you’ve volunteered, or network to find a new organization.
You’ll complete your Graduate Certificate with experience and be ready to improve the performance and outcomes, while supporting equity..
At the epicenter of impact, AU’s Washington, D.C. location leverages the proximity of the thriving business, non-profit, NGO, and government sectors so the leaders of today can train the leaders of tomorrow. Partnering with key organizations in the region and around the globe, we’re able to better the human condition, learn from a vast array of experiences, model purposeful leadership, and address society’s current and emerging challenges.
The DC Experience (DCX), an optional on-campus residency, gives you the opportunity to connect with the campus and explore the unique cultural landscape in the nation’s capital. You’ll also immerse yourself in the AU community, enhance your relationships with faculty and other online graduate students, and meet with guest speakers from the evaluation field.
American University offers a Master of Science in Measurement and Evaluation to provide you with the knowledge to lead evaluation efforts and the technical skills needed for analytically demanding roles in upper management. The program consists of six additional courses (10 courses total) and can be completed within 20 months. Learn more about the Master’s Program.
Course Descriptions
This 12-credit-hour program consists of four courses and can be completed in as few as eight months. The certificate curriculum is designed and taught by expert academic practitioner faculty who integrate their real-world evaluation experiences into their teaching.
This course introduces the terminology, critical issues, and current debates in the field of evaluation, as reflected in evaluation theories and practice. The course teaches the skills necessary to design Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning plans that reflect varying purposes, fields, and contexts. Students learn how to develop Program Theories of Change Models, Evaluation Logic Models, and Evaluation Statements of Work, three documents important to Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning. Students partner with organizations they identify to plan an evaluation, including articulating the purpose of the evaluation; crafting evaluation questions; setting outcomes and indicators; and proposing data collection and analysis plans.
Sample reading and discussion topics include:
- Critique evaluation theories and reflect on your “evaluator identity”
- Analyze the needs assessment and Program Theory of Change for a case study initiative
- Identify the purposes of an evaluation: Performance or impact
- Examine the strengths and limitations of traditional evaluation approaches and designs
- Explain how evaluators address causation, attribution, and contribution in their work
Sample assignments and projects include:
- Work with project collaborators to craft Theory of Change and Evaluation Logic Models.
- Set evaluation questions and identify the data needed to answer them.
- Develop an Evaluation Statement of Work (Evaluation SOW).
Course Outcomes
Outcomes reflect the knowledge, skills, and attitudes a learner should have upon completing PME 600.
Knowledge
- Discuss and critique the use of Logic Models.
- Demonstrate understanding of evaluation principles throughout the project lifecycle.
- Describe different evaluation purposes, approaches, and designs; and when they are useful within the project lifecycle.
- Recognize the opportunities and challenges of conducting quality planning, monitoring, and evaluation in varied contexts.
- Identify alternative approaches and designs, including complexity- aware approaches, developmental evaluation, and Most Significant Change.
Skills
- Develop a Program Theory of Change (PTOC).
- Develop a Logic Model, including project goal, purpose, outcomes, outputs, inputs/activities, indicators, data sources, and assumptions.
- Develop an Evaluation Statement of Work (SOW).
Attitudes
- Appreciate the complexity of project evaluation.
- Appreciate the importance of community and project collaborator participation in evaluation.
- Advocate for quality evaluation planning and implementation processes throughout the project lifecycle.
This course emphasizes the use of mixed method performance and summative evaluation designs that measure progress, outcomes, and impact. Students learn to differentiate performance and impact evaluations, including the data designs needed to support each. The course introduces different performance evaluation designs, including snapshot, simple, cross-sectional, before and after, time series, and case study design; and then focuses on impact evaluation designs, including experimental and quasi-experimental designs. Students learn about different evaluation approaches, such as Culturally Responsive Equitable Evaluation, Empowerment Evaluation, and Participatory Evaluation. Students partner with organizations they identify to plan an evaluation (including its design and approach); craft Theory of Change and Evaluation Logic Models; develop data collection instruments; collect and analyze data; and write an evaluation report.
Sample reading and discussion topics include:
- Evaluation purposes: Performance and impact and the data needed to support each
- Evaluation approaches: (Culturally Responsive Equitable Evaluation, Developmental Evaluation, Empowerment Evaluation, etc)
- Evaluation designs (case study, pre/post test, experimental, etc)
- Emerging designs (systems analysis, Outcome Harvesting, Most Significant Change, etc)
Sample assignments and projects include:
- Working with project collaborators, craft an Evaluation Logic Model.
- Select an evaluation approach and design and use these to develop an Evaluation Statement of Work (Evaluation SOW).
- Develop qualitative and quantitative data collection instruments.
- Collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data.
- Write an evaluation report.
Course Outcomes
Outcomes reflect the knowledge, skills, and attitudes a learner should have upon completing PME 610.
Knowledge
- Explain the purposes of, and differences between, performance and impact evaluation.
- Explain different approaches to evaluation, such as Culturally Responsive Equitable Evaluation, Developmental Evaluation, and Empowerment Evaluation.
- Demonstrate the appropriate use of performance and impact evaluation designs.
- Identify evaluation designs (and their related data) that are appropriate for addressing particular evaluation needs.
Skills
- Construct a Logic Model.
- Select an appropriate evaluation design and approach to meet the needs of an evaluation.
- Write an evaluation report.
Attitudes
- Become reflective, critical thinkers in evaluation purpose, approach, and design.
- Appreciate the importance of report writing and communicating results to project collaborators.
- Appreciate different performance, impact, and alternative evaluation designs, approaches, and frameworks.
Gain the skills necessary to craft qualitative data collection instruments and conduct qualitative research. Practice using qualitative data collection techniques including observation, participant observation, interviews, and focus groups. Explore the strengths, weaknesses, and uses of qualitative data and investigate the circumstances under which project planners, managers, and evaluators use qualitative data collection methods. Under mentorship of faculty, students partner with an organization and its project collaborators to set a qualitative research or evaluation question, collect qualitative data to answer it, write a report, and present findings.
Sample reading and discussion topics include:
- The nature of qualitative inquiry
- Reflection, bias, and positionality in qualitative research
- Qualitative research questions
- Qualitative measurement, including concepts and indicators
- Qualitative data collection techniques, including observation, participant observation, interviews, focus groups, and participatory tools
Sample assignments and projects include:
- Partner with an organization and its project collaborators to conduct observation, participant observation, interviews, and a focus group.
- Analyze qualitative data and design data visualizations.
- Write a final report.
- Complete Human Subjects Training.
Course Outcomes
Outcomes reflect the knowledge, skills, and attitudes a learner should have upon completing PROF 640.
Knowledge
- Explain when and how project planners, managers, and evaluators use qualitative data collection techniques.
- Identify the kinds of data gathered through different qualitative methods.
Skills
- Use observation, participant observation, participatory tools, interviews, and focus groups for project planning and monitoring and evaluation activities.
- Analyze qualitative data collected from multiple qualitative data collection techniques.
- Design qualitative indicators to measure concepts and change.
Attitudes
- Identify and be prepared to address the possible challenges of collecting qualitative data in different contexts.
- Appreciate the ethical considerations related to the collection of qualitative data.
- Appreciate the role of the researcher, including biases and positionality, as it relates to qualitative data collection and analysis.
This course comprehensively introduces quantitative research methods, the skills to conduct survey research, and the knowledge to produce descriptive and analytical reports that meet the guidelines and expectations of professional practitioners in the field. Students explore various statistical procedures, starting from descriptive statistics, correlation, and graphical representation of data to inferential techniques, analysis of variance, and beyond, and practice using SPSS and R to manage data and generate statistical analysis reports. The course covers ethical considerations in quantitative data collection, data equity, and equity-impacting decision points in data projects. Using practical applications and real-world examples, students are guided through these topics in an informative and approachable manner to make this often-intimidating subject more accessible.
Sample reading and discussion topics include:
- Sampling
- Questionnaire design
- Managing quantitative data
- Measures of central tendency
- Correlations
- T-tests
- Analysis of Variance
- Regression analysis
Sample assignments and projects include:
- Quantitative research design and data collection plan
- Create and administer a quantitative survey
- Analyze survey data
- Create data visualizations
- Write a final report
Course Outcomes
Outcomes reflect the knowledge, skills, and attitudes a learner should have upon completing PROF 650.
Knowledge
- Differentiate between different types of quantitative research
- Identify and describe the different types of validity and reliability
Skills
- Develop and test a hypothesis using quantitative research methods
- Apply various descriptive and inferential statistics.
- Use statistical software for data management, analysis, and presentation of findings.
- Evaluate different strategies to analyze and report quantitative data.
Attitudes
- Appreciate the ethical considerations related to the collection of quantitative data
Make a Difference with Monitoring and Evaluation Skills
American University’s online Graduate Certificate in Project Monitoring is designed to help current employees and job seekers assess a project’s performance as well as its lasting impact. Whether you’re backstopping a project or conceptualizing a program, you’ll need targeted M&E knowledge to help make your efforts a success and support equity in program outcomes.
This vital credential, paired with an accredited institution like American University, positions you for domestic and international advancement in measurement and evaluation careers.
Project managers and program evaluators are needed in several fields, including education, public health, international development, philanthropy, government, and the private and nonprofit sectors.
Your skills in measurement and evaluation will make your efforts a success in roles such as:
Project or Program Manager
Program managers collaborate with teams across an organization to oversee and coordinate projects to ensure they complement one another and benefit the company.
Community Development Officer
Community development officers work on projects that involve urban planning assessment to improve the community or city they work for. In this role, you’ll often work with zoning officers, building inspectors, and land development managers.
Research Associate
As a research associate, you’ll collect, prepare, analyze, and evaluate qualitative and quantitative data to support the improvement and management of programs.
Nonprofit Program Manager
Nonprofit program managers maintain the quality of their organization’s programs and ensure they meet their stated goals. They also oversee the budget and staff for projects.
Evaluation Specialist
As an evaluation specialist, you’ll work under a team leader and help to design and structure the evaluation, review methodologies, and collect, analyze, and visualize data. You’ll present findings to different project collaborator groups.
Alumni Employers
As passionate change-makers, our alumni are responsible for using their policy skills to make an impact. You can find some of them working at these outstanding organizations:
- Bizzell Group
- Development Alternatives Inc
- Independent Consulting
- Local School Districts
- Mathematica
- Public Charter Schools
- US Dept of Commerce
- USAID
- Washington Metro Area Transit Authority
- World Bank
Beverly Peters, Ph.D.
Program Director & Senior Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Peters is a specialist in community development in Southern Africa, with over twenty-five years of experience in teaching, conducting research and managing projects in the region. She has developed proposals and managed research, democratization, and community development programs in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and other countries.
As a program evaluator, Dr. Peters specializes in the use of qualitative methods for monitoring and evaluation. She currently is a blog writer for Qualitative Methods for M&E and is a regular contributor for the American Evaluation Association’s 365 Series. In 2013, she won the American University’s Jack Child Teaching with Technology Award and the Mobile Technology Award. Additionally, she was awarded the SPEXS 2017-18 Excellence in Teaching and Service Award.
Dr. Peters holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs from California State University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh.
Blanca Flor Guillen-Woods, M.S.
Adjunct Instructor
Ms. Guillen-Woods has been involved with several aspects of applied research and evaluation including management of multi-site and multi-year projects for non-profits organizations working with communities of color. Her experience includes research design, fieldwork, public opinion polling, conducting focus groups, facilitation of community meetings, as well as quantitative and qualitative data analyses. For over twenty years, Ms. Guillen-Woods has conducted quasi-experimental and mixed methods research studies and program evaluations. Her research areas cover education, youth services, civic engagement, health prevention, and intervention, all through the lens of diversity and inclusion. She actively participates in discussions centered on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in education and evaluation. For the past several years, she has been involved with Latino Decisions, working towards empowering Latinos and giving them a stronger voice in shaping national and statewide policies. These policies range from healthcare to immigration reform efforts. Additionally, her work with Strategic Learning Partners revolves around implementing culturally responsive and equitable evaluation approaches.
Ms. Guillen-Woods holds a Master of Arts in Social Psychology from Claremont Graduate University.
Nina Sabarre, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Sabarre is the Founder and CEO of Intention 2 Impact, Inc., a research, evaluation, and strategy consulting firm that helps purpose-driven organizations measure and maximize their impact. She has over a decade of experience in mixed-methods research and evaluation in over twenty-five countries. She has collaborated with a wide variety of cross-sector clients including USAID, United Nations, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Rockefeller Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Asian Pacific Islander Council, Elevate Prize Foundation, Earthjustice, and the University of Southern California. Her work focuses on developmental and utilization-focused evaluation for strategic grantmaking and policy advocacy for systems change.
She is passionate about progressive causes, breaking glass ceilings for women, and using entrepreneurship to dismantle the status quo.
Dr. Sabarre holds a PhD in Evaluation and Applied Research from Claremont Graduate University, where her dissertation research focused on the role of entrepreneurship in shaping the supply of and demand for evaluation services in the philanthropic sector. She earned a master’s degree in political science from Virginia Tech, as well as a graduate certificate in Measurement & Evaluation from American University.
Nicassia Belton, Ed.D.
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Nicassia Belton serves as the Vice President of Learning, Evaluation, and Data Management at the Baltimore Children and Youth Fund (BCYF), responsible for providing direction, leadership, and management for BCYF’s youth-centered, community accountable, racially equitable evaluation, learning framework, and data strategy. She has spent over 15 years working with state and local education agencies, postsecondary institutions, and non-profits leading the work to promote the use of accountability ecosystems centered on culturally responsive and equitable evaluation and strategic research and data use to drive change to improve equity in access, opportunity, and outcomes for our children and youth. Dr. Belton’s work is squarely focused on her central belief that the easiest way to affect change is holding people and organizations to high expectations of culturally responsive behaviors and practices through the utilization of effective accountability ecosystems.
Felicia Jones, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professorial Instructor
Dr. Felicia Jones serves as the Vice President of the Strategic Solutions Group-Global Government Solutions at KBR, Inc. She develops strategic initiatives and technical capabilities to drive innovation and collaboration across all business units.
Dr. Felicia Jones served as the Director of Engineering and Technology at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). She is highly skilled in the management of technical organizations, providing end-to-end engineering capability for all space flight missions from advanced concepts to implementation, integration, test, and launch. She led one of the largest engineering organizations at NASA with over 1,250 civil servant employees and 2,000 support service contractors supporting over $5B of NASA and other government agency space flight programs. She managed a portfolio of over $3B in technical contracts, providing leadership to a multi-disciplined, technical organization charged with advancing the Nation’s science, human exploration, and space technology programs. She led new business developments, forging partnerships and capturing new work in support of NASA’s Earth science, space science, and exploration missions.
Dr. Jones is the recipient of numerous awards including the Presidential Rank Award, the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, and the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal.
Dr. Jones holds a PhD in Systems Engineering from the George Washington University, a M.S. degree in Business Science from the Johns Hopkins University, a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Howard University, and a B.A. in Biology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Ally Krupar, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Krupar is a dedicated researcher who focuses on the critical aspects of lifelong learning in conflict-affected regions and transitional societies. Her primary interests lie in exploring education in international development, particularly in low-resource settings, and leveraging technology to enhance learning experiences.
In her recent and ongoing research projects, she has been involved in diverse areas, including conducting learning assessments for children in displacement, developing an index to monitor the fulfillment of the right to education globally, and implementing Accelerated Education programming in transitional settings. Additionally, her work has delved into exploring participatory pedagogy in the context of international development and examining youth community engagement in conflict-affected and resource-limited environments. Moreover, she has investigated the intersection of learning, technology, and the challenges faced by low-income and hard-to-reach populations.
With over thirteen years of experience, she has contributed significantly to the field of adult education, collaborating with universities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Her expertise spans curriculum development, teacher training, project planning, monitoring and evaluation, and the incorporation of technology to enrich learning experiences for diverse communities.
Dr. Krupar holds a Master of Arts in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education from Penn State University.
Beverly Peters
Program Director
Dr. Peters is a specialist in community development in southern Africa, with more than 25 years of experience teaching, conducting research, and managing development projects in the region. She has developed proposals for and managed research, democratization, and community development programs in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, among other countries. A program evaluator, Dr. Peters is a specialist in the use of qualitative methods for monitoring and evaluation. She writes a blog on Qualitative Methods for M&E and is a regular contributor on this topic for the American Evaluation Association’s 365 Series. She was one of the winners of American University’s 2013 Jack Child Teaching with Technology Award and 2013 Mobile Technology Award; and was awarded the SPExS 2017-2018 Excellence in Teaching and Service Award. Dr. Peters holds an MA in Public and International Affairs from California State University Sacramento and a PhD in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh.Learning Online
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- Yellow Ribbon Program
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Developed by industry professionals who are well-known and highly experienced in their fields, our program focuses primarily on project evaluation rather project management and offers more in-depth and multi-disciplinary content to arm you with the tools needs to be an evaluation expert in a variety of fields.
A council of top evaluation professionals from leading organizations advised on the curriculum to ensure that it develops the current, relevant skill set needed today for professional success in measurement and evaluation across fields.
Degree requirements for the certificate in monitoring and evaluation include a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university.
Applicants will need to submit the following:
- Completed application
- Statement of purpose
- Résumé
- Official transcripts
- Two letters of recommendation
- $55 application fee*
No prior measurement and evaluation experience is required for admission to the program; however, this program is geared toward those with prior professional experience.
The program can be completed in as little as 15 months.
No, a GRE test is not required.
We do not accept transfer credits for graduate certificate programs.
Our application deadline will change depending on which semester you are applying for. Please contact our online admissions staff for a specific timeline your application file needs to be fully submitted. Application decisions are given about two weeks following submission.
Our fall semester starts in August. Spring semester begins in January. Summer session begins in May.
No. This is an exclusive program being offered online. There will be opportunities for the learners to meet each other face to face but they are all optional.
Yes, online students can easily request a student ID online to take advantage of all the same resources as our on-campus students.
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