This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Congratulations, evaluator, you’ve landed a client! Or maybe your organization has selected an evaluator to complete an exciting project. Either way, your next step is a contract for evaluation services. It’s always safest to have a contract in place before any work […]
Evaluation Roundup – June 2021
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Welcome to our monthly roundup of new and noteworthy evaluation news and resources – here is the latest. Have something you’d like to see here? Tweet us @EvalAcademy! New and Noteworthy — Reads How Funders Seek and Use Knowledge to Influence Philanthropic Practice […]
Project Management for Evaluation
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Sometimes managing evaluations can feel like herding cats. Despite your best efforts at nailing down methods, timelines, and other evaluation requirements, plans tend to change, especially if you aren’t paying attention. Evaluators work in multiple environments and just like there’s no one-size-fits-all evaluation plan, […]
Evaluation Roundup – May 2021
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Welcome to our monthly roundup of new and noteworthy evaluation news and resources – here is the latest. Have something you’d like to see here? Tweet us @EvalAcademy! New and Noteworthy — Reads How Far Dare an Evaluator Go Toward Saving the World? […]
What to Include in your Evaluation RFP
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. In an evaluation consultant’s ideal world, potential clients would show up in our inboxes and ask us to be their evaluators because they’ve heard about how great we are or have worked with us before. But in the real world, organizations must […]
Let Excel do the Math: Easy tricks to clean and analyze data in Excel
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. One of the most common things I see when I work data in excel that others have compiled or analyzed is the under-use of Excel’s computational powers. In part, this has to do with setting up your data correctly to all Excel […]
Evaluation Roundup – April 2021
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Welcome to our monthly roundup of new and noteworthy evaluation news and resources – here is the latest. Have something you’d like to see here? Tweet us @EvalAcademy! New and Noteworthy — Reads Shifting the Evaluation Paradigm: The Equitable Evaluation Framework Hot of […]
9 Tips to Make the Most Out of Your Virtual Conference Experience
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. In a year that saw massive and rapid shifts to online events and virtual conferences, gone are the days of rolling up to conference hotels, resigning yourself to dry pastries and tiny cups of coffee at snack breaks, and rushing endlessly down […]
Why you shouldn’t rely on default survey platforms to give you all the answers
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. So you’ve administered a survey using one of the many online survey platforms that claim to help you create a survey, analyze the results, and export your results so you can make data-driven decisions. With tools like these, who needs an evaluator! […]
Evaluation Question Examples
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. A blank page can intimidate any writer. The same goes for evaluators – that “evaluation questions” column in your evaluation plan may be daunting. Looking at examples of real-world evaluation questions just might inspire your own. We’ve already covered how to write good […]