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This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com […] is the second post in a series of blog posts based on my thesis. Read the introductory post here which describes the developmental […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com […] Developmental appropriateness as cultural competence in evaluation […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com Background On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed by police officers. This news is not new. George’s cries of “I can’t breathe” echo the same cries by Eric Garner, who was also killed by police officers on July 17, 2014. Black, indigenous, […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com Packing up the spring 2020 semester and transitioning to remote teaching was difficult, not just for me but also for my students. As I told them, “None of us signed up for online teaching. But we’ll make it through this.” And we did! […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com In reply to Allison Titcomb. Certainly, thinking of evaluation as a transdiscipline or the alpha discipline that Scriven describes is one reason why I think evaluation can inform research-practice partnerships. I think it’s also just the consultancy nature of what we do and […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com Notion calls itself an all-in-one workspace for notes and documents, wikis, tasks and projects, and spreadsheets and databases. Although I still prefer Todoist as my task manager (I wish Todoist and Notion could integrate!), Notion has become my project management software tool. I’ll […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com The RoE TIG convened a working group to help promote the field of RoE, and one of our first tasks was to come to a consensus on the definition of RoE. There are many definitions of research on evaluation (RoE), which can make […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com Although there is much to change in my intro to psychology course I taught for the first time this semester, one thing I know I will keep next semester is the concept demonstration project that students did at the end of the semester. […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com I have been crazy busy with my first semester as an assistant professor of psychology in evaluation at University of Wisconsin-Stout, but I wanted to share with you an activity that I found very beneficial after our first exam in Introduction to Psychology. […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com This blog is largely inspired by some recent conversations with colleagues (read below), the theme of the Canadian Evaluation Society’s 2019 conference of Bridges, and the blog post by Jade Malone about “un-boxing” evaluation in reference to the theme of the Australian Evaluation […]