This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Six Hacks for Renovating Your Evaluation Report Part 3 This series of posts walks you through how to reno your evaluation reports using six of Canva’s design lessons. Part 1 focused on how to take your audience on a journey using storytelling […]
Cleaning Messy Text Data is a Breeze with OpenRefine
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. We’ve all been there – you get some data from a client or a survey you’ve run, and you can’t wait to start answering your evaluation questions. But you find one of your data columns is a complete mess because it was […]
Six Hacks for Renovating Your Evaluation Report Part 2: Consistency is Cool
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. This series of posts walks you through how to reno your evaluation reports using six of Canva’s design lessons. Part 1 focused on how to take your audience on a journey using storytelling techniques. Part 2 in this six-part series focuses on […]
Evaluation Roundup – September 2020
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Welcome to our September roundup of new and noteworthy evaluation news and resources – here is the latest. Have something you’d like to see here? Tweet us @EvalAcademy or connect on LinkedIn! Virtual conference resources Conference season is upon us! Ordinarily most […]
7 Tips for Better Data Visualizations
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Data visualization is an effective approach for improved data comprehension. Seeing the data presented in a clear, concise fashion drives your overall message home much better than cluttered tables. In this article I outline seven simple tips that will help to improve […]
Evaluation Roundup – August 2020
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Welcome to our August roundup of new and noteworthy evaluation news and resources – here is the latest. Have something you’d like to see here? Tweet us @EvalAcademy or connect on LinkedIn! New and Noteworthy Evaluation Podcasts While podcasts aren’t new it […]
Six Hacks for Renovating Your Evaluation Report
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Part 1 – Take them on a journey Evaluators are notorious for bad reporting. According to Jane Davidson it has to do with our training. Often evaluators are trained in social sciences – a world that prepares people for academic style research […]
What is Evaluation? A Review of AEA’s Recent Post
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Evaluators are equipped to ask and answer some pretty complex questions. We are not afraid to tackle abstract ideas and make sense of messy data. However, there is one question that can be tough to succinctly answer – what is evaluation? As […]
Evaluation Has a Racism Problem – What Can We Do About It?
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. This article is a summary and discussion of Caldwell and Bledsoe’s 2019 paper in the American Journal of Evaluation called “Can Social Justice Live in a House of Structural Racism? A Question for the Field of Evaluation.” The original article contains the […]
My Interviewee is Drinking Vodka: An Evaluation Ethics Case
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. On a summer morning, after several attempts to interview clients for an evaluation project, I arrived with a social worker at an overnight shelter. Finally, we had located Jules, who wanted to share her experiences with the program I was learning about. When we approached her […]