This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. This article is rated as: Hey Program Managers, I wonder if you’ve ever needed to decide how to evaluate the programs or services you offer; not just the in-the-weeds details about how to write the evaluation plan and measure the outcomes, […]
How to Use World Cafés as an Evaluation Data Collection Method
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. This article is rated as: If you want to collect richer data than a survey can provide, but interviews and focus groups are not feasible for your number or availability of participants, a World Café might be your solution! World Cafés […]
Survey Design: Unsure about Unsure
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. This article is rated as: Designing a quality survey isn’t as easy as it seems. I’m sure we’ve all been asked to take surveys that frustrate us for one reason or another. Maybe the answer we want to choose isn’t available, […]
The Frustration of Searching for Evaluation Content
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. If you are an evaluator, or someone interested in learning more about evaluation, you might have experienced the frustration of searching for evaluation-related content online. The word evaluation is used in so many different contexts and industries, that it can be […]
Evaluating for Spread and Scale
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. This article is rated as: These two words go together so nicely, “spread and scale”; they kind of roll off the tongue. I wonder how many of us would struggle to define or, perhaps more importantly, distinguish the two. Earlier in my career, […]
Survey Question Types
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. We love a survey at Eval Academy! It’s one of the most commonly used data collection tools in an evaluator’s toolbox. There are lots of benefits to using a survey: you can collect lots of responses for a low cost, you can collect […]
In defence of long reports.
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. This article is rated as: 116, 78, 54, 47 – These are not my golf scores, or my typing speed, or even the number of CDs I owned in the 90s. These are my report lengths, in pages. My name […]
Building Capacity in Evaluation
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. This article is rated as: Most evaluators are hired to evaluate something: a program, grant-funded activities, a new approach. But what do you do if you get asked to build capacity in evaluation? That is, to help another team or organization […]
A picture is worth a thousand words: Photovoice
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. This article is rated as: We all know the standard data collection tools in an evaluator’s methodology toolkit: surveys, interviews, focus groups, document review, and maybe even observation. But we also know there is a world of other methodologies out there […]
The Art of Writing Evaluation Questions
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. This article is rated as: It seems so simple – just ask a question! But many new evaluators or side-of-desk evaluators struggle with confidence in creating good evaluation questions. Here are a few tips to accompany some content we’ve already shared […]