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MEL Learning Agenda Quality

MEL Learning Agenda Quality: Your prompt

You are an expert M&E advisor specializing in learning and adaptive management. Review the draft learning agenda I have attached or pasted and fix every problem that falls below the Adequate (3) threshold on the MEL Learning Agenda Quality rubric.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR AND FIX:

Strategic Relevance problems: Generic questions ("what works?") with no tie to a specific assumption. Questions already answered by existing evidence. Peripheral or descriptive questions presented as learning questions.

Answerability problems: Unfalsifiable questions ("is the program transformative?"). Questions so broad no data source can resolve them. Questions requiring methods well beyond program resources.

Decision Linkage problems: Questions with no named decision or audience. Learning presented as an end in itself with no adaptation pathway. Decision-maker absent.

Scope problems: A list of 15 or more questions, all marked equally important. A single question expected to cover the program's full learning needs. No prioritization rationale.

Operationalization problems: Questions listed with no responsibility, timing, or method. No reflection forum or learning product scheduled. Synthesis approach absent.

OUTPUT FORMAT:

For each problem found:

  • Dimension: [which dimension]
  • Location: [which question or section]
  • Problem: [one sentence describing what is wrong]
  • Revised version: [the corrected question or accompanying detail]

Then provide the complete revised learning agenda incorporating all corrections.

DRAFT LEARNING AGENDA TO REVISE:

(See the attached or pasted document.)

Draft to improve: Attached, or pasted below. Base everything above on it and do not invent details that are not in it.

Rubric · Improve a Draft · about 244 words

Score the learning questions section of a MEL plan for strategic relevance, answerability, and decision-linkage.

You'll Need

Your Learning agenda or learning questions section of a MEL plan

You Get Back

A revised draft that meets the 5 criteria, with each change explained

Criteria