This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Ahmaud Arbery. Sean Reed. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. George Floyd. When does this racial terror end? For the past three months, our communities have been inundated with painful stories and images of Black people targeted, harassed, arrested, and killed by police and racist vigilantes. […]
So what is evaluation anyway?
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Post originally published as a collection of 13 evaluation cartoons on March 25, 2014. Updated with way more context on May 27, 2020. When you search “What is Evaluation?” on Google, you get the kinds of responses you might expect. The Wikipedia page…if […]
Evaluation Blogs
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. So I decided to create what I hope will eventually become an ultimate list of evaluation blogs. Not just a boring bullet point list, but one that gives you a sense of the human being on the other side of the internet. This […]
Evaluation and COVID-19
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Social media is not a monologue. It’s a collection of voices seen (or unseen) based almost entirely on who you do or do not follow. But the world we see is based, as it always has been, on the people that surround us. […]
111 Evaluation Cartoons for Presentations and Blog Posts
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Looking for an evaluation related cartoon for your next presentation or blog post? Well, over the last decade I’ve drawn hundreds. In this post, I’m sharing 111 of my evaluation cartoons, including a lot of community favorites. Please feel free to save to […]
Post or Perish
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. So I received a little constructive feedback after last week’s post. Just be mindful of the voices you aren’t hearing. For some with ill family members, homeschooling small children, navigating aging parents in place, on top of maintaining stable income — finding time […]
Dear evaluators, it’s time to blog!
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. This post is my plea to you. Please start blogging. As conferences cancel… It doesn’t take too many clicks to see that COVID-19 is impacting our field’s ability to communicate with one another. All you really have to do is visit Better Evaluation’s […]
The Evaluation Mindset: When Nobody Listens
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. If only we had known we were vastly underprepared for a global pandemic… I say that tongue-in-cheek. Of course we knew. President after president was briefed with data and evidence showing the potential devastation a pandemic could have on our global society. In […]
Evaluation Mindset: Imagining a Destination
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. There are all sorts of purposeful goal-driven people and organizations. Intent on following a path towards a destination that is clear in their minds. They might have even put the destination down on paper, charting the course and knowing the way forward. But […]
The Evaluation Mindset: Not Your Data
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. In 2018, 87 years after it was completed, Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon was released to the public. Reading the book today the story of Cudjo Lewis feels completely relevant to our contemporary times. It is heartbreaking, illuminating, and honest. In the way she […]