This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at elizabethgrim.com. Thank you. As a parent whose child has T1D who is also an evaluator, my experience with diabetes has made me more empathetic. Im a better person than before diagnosis but I’d go back to being my old self if I could erase […]
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 […]
Innovation Design Quality Control
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. You want and need help in transforming your organization or business line and are seeking a consultant to help you. What should you look for? Let’s look at questions and issues you may want to consider when starting an innovation journey. We break […]
Pancreas Ponderings: What T1D Has Taught Me About Eval
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at elizabethgrim.com. Long before we entered the pre-Covid/during-Covid realm, marked by daily monitoring of case counts, testing, hospitalizations, and death tolls, I had my own pre/during world. Like evaluation, this world includes constant monitoring, learning, and adjusting. This post shares five lessons from T1D that […]
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 […]
Evaluation Roundup – July 2020
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Welcome to our July 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 — Reads International Program for Development Evaluation […]
Comment on If we cannot define “museums,” how do museums survive? by Diane
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. I would hope there would be a variety of museum “types”. But the note about jargon is a real issue for me. The language should be straightforward and not contrived. Here is a little fun about what I mean: 115950217_3245495082163683_2161735501010600354_n.jpeg
How We Used an Outcome Harvest
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Recently, we at Three Hive Consulting used outcome harvesting as part of a developmental evaluation with an organization who builds connections and helps facilitate community change. As with most developmental and participatory techniques, using this method was a bit time intensive, but […]
Walking the talk
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com This blog post was originally posted in the American Evaluation Association July 2020 newsletter. Thank you to AEA for asking me to reflect on what the AEA values mean to me and how they guide my work. This summer has been a time […]
After-Action Review: Learning Together Through Complexity
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. Complexity science is the study of how systems behave when under conditions of high dynamism (change) and instability due to the number, sequencing, and organization of actors, relationships, and outcomes. Complex systems pose difficulty drawing clear lessons because the relationship between causes and […]