This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Blogging is hard. I’m not sure why I find it such a struggle, though I know I’m not the only one who does. I marvel at the folks who seem to be able to write quickly, eloquently, and insightfully (I can usually manage […]
sensitizing (dis)comfort
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. There’s a really great device that Michael Quinn Patton offers for use in developmental evaluation called ‘sensitizing concepts’. He’s borrowed it from qualitative research methods as a way of providing guidance to inquiry in complexity. Here’s a definition he gives in his qualitative […]
I have a complex relationship with my back
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Photo by Charles 🇵🇭 on Unsplash. I hurt my back last week. This is not news. I’ve been hurting my back since 2013. About six months after I finished grad school, toward the end of my work-day, I noticed that my […]
(Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know about Carolyn’s Pronouns
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Pronouns are small little words to cause such a fuss, am I right? In my ideal world, my pronouns would require no footnotes, no extra explanation, or citations. But as we don’t live in a gender utopia, at least a little explanation is […]
Future of Evaluation: Emerging Evaluators on the Horizon
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. In December I had the opportunity to moderate a breakfast club event organized by the local chapters for the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES-BCY) and the Institute of Public Administration Canada (IPAC Vancouver). The theme was next year’s CES 2017 Conference theme: Facing Forward: Innovation, Action […]