This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at nicoleclarkconsulting.com. Try this out and let me know how it goes. One of my favorite things to do is come up with things on the fly, and today’s Try This is one of those moments. I was hired by a client organization early in […]
Try This: A Simple Way to Get Program Feedback
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at nicoleclarkconsulting.com. Try this out and let me know how it goes. One of my favorite things to do is come up with things on the fly, and today’s Try This is one of those moments. I was hired by a client organization early in […]
Evaluator Inspired Cartoons
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. The majority of what I would consider to be my best cartoons have always been the products of simple collaboration. Here is how it works. I talk to another evaluator and ask them if there is anything they are struggling with or if […]
Re-envisioning a University’s Monthly Report: Two Reports with Two Different Purposes
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. A million years ago, I was invited to be the keynote speaker for the Southeastern Library Assessment Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. As part of that process, we redesigned several of their existing reports and dashboards. Before When asked to submit their existing visualizations […]
5 Questions to Ask about 501(c)(4) Organizations in Advocacy Ecosystems
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at medium.com/innovationnetwork. By Johanna Morariu Advocacy ecosystems are a community of interacting individuals and organizations. They unite around a shared purpose of influencing policies and practices of institutions. A quote attributed to Helen Keller, “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much,” […]
We can’t let them fall through the cracks.
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at engagewithdata.com. I started writing a completely different blog post for this week, but when I read the news this morning, I knew I had to shift gears. CNN featured a story yesterday called “Teachers and social workers search for students who are ‘missing’ in […]
Comment on Wearing Many Hats: Where Does the Role of Evaluator End? by How Am I? I’m Sitting in the Suck – Elizabeth Grim
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at elizabethgrim.com. […] an evaluator, I am a professional question asker. And yet personally, the hardest question for me has been to […]
How Am I? I’m Sitting in the Suck
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at elizabethgrim.com. “How are you?” Ugh this question makes me cringe. My answer to this is usually “fine.” And not because I am. I am most certainly not fine right now. As an evaluator, I am a professional question asker. And yet personally, the hardest […]
Más problemas estructurales de los gobiernos para aprender en tiempos de COVID
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at triplead.blog. Fuente: https://blogs.iadb.org/salud/es/priorizar-el-gasto-en-salud/ Siguiendo con COVID y barreras gubernamentales para el aprendizaje, profundizamos un poco más sobre estas barreras y cómo los gobiernos desperdician grandes sumas de dinero y crean planes masivos que pocas veces funcionan, siendo la mayoría de las veces las causas […]
Comment on Evaluation as a Bridging Profession by Dana Wanzer
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com In reply to Melanie Hunsaker. As I get older and become more experienced, and after my conversations on boundaries and thinking about the relationships between evaluation and research, I’ve almost become a bit less inclined towards boundaries. In the beginning, it was nice […]