ALE Webinar Series: Leveraging Outcome Harvesting and AI to Build More Effective Evaluation Plans

Based on the overfilled session at the Annual Learning Event, CES-NCC is bringing you a series of Lunch & Learn webinars in April.

Buy your April webinar package for:

FREE for ALE delegates
$50 for CES Members
$75 for Non-Members

April 29, 2025
Leveraging Outcome Harvesting and AI to Build More Effective Evaluation Plans

This presentation aims to demonstrate how an innovative evaluation approach like outcome harvesting can be paired with AI to create more effective and sound evaluation plans.

Outcome harvesting is a flexible evaluation method that captures and verifies actual outcomes, eliminating the need for a predefined logic model. By using AI, evaluators can quickly analyze large datasets, identify patterns, and automate time-consuming tasks, though data accuracy remains a key concern. Outcome harvesting provides a critical safeguard with its built-in data verification mechanisms, ensuring that any potential errors introduced by AI are caught and corrected. This makes it a secure approach to leverage AI in evaluation, allowing evaluators to rely on AI for efficiency while maintaining confidence in the accuracy of their results. Through the use of a case study, participants will gain an understanding of what outcome harvesting is, the steps in the process where AI can be effectively utilized, and how the results of the harvest can be used to create a more effective evaluation plan.

The session will provide real-world examples of applying outcome harvesting in program evaluations without a clear roadmap and demonstrate how AI can complement this by quickly identifying trends, managing large datasets, and synthesizing qualitative and quantitative data. By the end of the presentation, participants will have practical tools for integrating AI and outcome harvesting in a responsible, effective way, empowering them to create robust evaluation plans even when a program lacks a formal structure.