MONITORING AND EVALUATION SIG

The purpose of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Special Interest Group (SIG) is to share and elevate best practices, evidence and research, challenges, and solutions regarding monitoring, evaluation, and learning in the field of international education. This SIG encourages practitioners, scholars, scholar-practitioners, researchers, evaluators, and students interested in monitoring and evaluation to engage in a variety of topics including: developing evaluation and research designs, creating analytical frameworks, using qualitative and quantitative methodologies, ensuring participatory evaluation principles and ethics of equity and inclusion, visualizing data, and establishing monitoring systems, among other monitoring, evaluation, and learning areas.  

We encourage SIG members to engage with the SIG to:

1. Share resources and research on various topics in monitoring and evaluation for education programming and learning
2. Collaborate and learn from one another, share challenges and solutions, and improve the field collectively
3. Join mentoring opportunities that link monitoring, evaluation, and learning enthusiasts at different points in the professional pathways

• Ayano Yukimoto, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA: Co-Chair, Unit Planner/Program Chair. [email protected]
• Krystina Heidelberg, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA: Secretary. [email protected]

The CIES Special Interest Group (SIG) directory (https://members.cies.us/page/SIGs) provides a complete list of the mission, officers, and work of our 37 SIGs, which are sorted by region or topic.

You must be a member of CIES to join a SIG, which can be done any time during the year.

There are three ways to join a SIG:

1. Online, any time of the year, when renewing your CIES membership including the SIG dues. Please go to, https://members.cies.us/page/meminfo.
2. Online, when registering as a presenter for the CIES Conference, which requires CIES membership. A specific link will be available for each conference.
3. By mail or phone. Please contact the Office of the Executive Director (OED) Membership Coordinator by email at, [email protected], or by phone during business hours at (412) 383-3945.

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