Primary Outcomes (end points)
Pre/post survey with public servants and their managers: Public servants seeking to take the training and their managers are sent a link to an online survey (on SurveyCTO). They are asked to complete the online survey before the training (baseline) and after the treatment group training (endline) to assess whether the online course furthers participants’ understanding of government analytics, positive attitudes towards government analytics (e.g. in terms of feasibility in their organisation), actual government analytics practices of participants, and the perceived impact of these practices on the effectiveness of their organisation, relative to a control group which has not yet taken the training, but is also requested to take the survey. In addition to substantive questions about government analytics, the survey includes questions about the participant’s email address, and questions about their demographic and professional background, including – e.g. – gender, age, job title and the organisation they work for.
Online course engagement metrics: The World Bank’s online training platform enables measurement of engagement of public servants with the online Government Analytics training, including time spent on the training platform, number of comments made in the online forum of the training, and number of exercises completed.
Participant submissions of government analytics projects: Participants are asked to share a write-up of the government analytics projects they completed as part of the training, via a Google Form. Project submissions will be downloaded, linked to pre-post survey data and online course engagement, and subsequently pseudo-anonymized, with names and email addresses removed.