This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Is Consent Always Needed? Consent to participate in an evaluation project may not be required if the risks posed to an individual are normal, or no more than routine care. A good rule of thumb is that “the level of consent should match the level […]
Evaluation Roundup – September 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 The Complexity Evaluation Toolkit The Centre for the Evaluation of […]
Scope Creep: When to Indulge it, and When to Avoid it
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. In most evaluation plans, we try to define scope. Defining evaluation scope means putting boundaries around things like: Time – defining what timeframe of the initiative you will include in your evaluation, or how long you will be undertaking evaluation work People – […]
Consent Part 1: What is Informed Consent
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. As an evaluator, a big part of our role is to collect data. Sometimes that data comes from administrative databases that require data sharing agreements, but sometimes it comes from people, who need to consent to sharing their information (or data) with […]
Data Dictionary: the what, why and how
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Technological advances have resulted in the collection of large amounts of data and the availability of data continues to skyrocket. To give you a perspective, more data has been collected in the past two years (2019 & 2020) than the entire human […]
Evaluation Roundup – August 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 The Ultimate Guide to Effective Data Collection A free 30-page […]
But really, how do I use the RE-AIM Framework?
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Early in my career as a consulting evaluator, I landed a major contract. The contract was to evaluate a nationally-funded province-wide quality improvement program in health care. The funder specified that I evaluate using the RE-AIM framework. Enter: Googling about RE-AIM. I know we’ve all had to-do items either personally or professionally where we just want someone to “tell me what […]
Six lessons from practicing “true” developmental evaluation
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Remember when you were a kid and you heard there was going to be a new kid at school? The news spread like wild fire. Students were excited and intrigued by this new person. When the new kid arrived at school, many were eager to […]
Does my program need a dashboard?
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. One of the deliverables my clients often request is a dashboard. Those clients are looking for easy-to-understand, powerful insights at a glance. They want to be able to know what they need to know when they need to know it, then make evidence-informed decisions. […]
Business Tools You Need to Run Your Evaluation Consultancy
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Starting a company is daunting. Where do you even begin? When my business partner, Shelby Corley and I started Three Hive Consulting we had A LOT of questions. We knew (and still believe) that evaluation is a means for driving organizational impact, so starting an evaluation consultancy seemed obvious. […]