This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at b3consults.com. Photo credit: davide25 https://www.needpix.com/photo/download/240225 Last fall at my business retreat, I did a guided visualization. As I began drawing what I hoped my year ahead would become, I imagined my clients as hot air balloons — vibrant and taking flight — and my role of supporting their […]
Declaración de la plataforma BetterEvaluation frente al COVID-19
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at triplead.blog. Esta es la Declaración de la plataforma BetterEvaluation frente al COVID-19 (Abril de 2020) La pandemia de COVID-19 está transformando rápidamente nuestro mundo. Las personas, las comunidades y las organizaciones enfrentan enormes desafíos e incertidumbres. La crisis climática y los desastres naturales sin […]
Social and Emotional Learning is Imperative and in Museum Educators’ Wheelhouse: Part 2
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. Shortly after posting my last blog on social and emotional learning being imperative and in museum educators’ wheelhouse, some conversations with clients, colleagues, and research participants further drove this point home for me. In my first post, I wrote about how important question-posing […]
111 Evaluation Cartoons for Presentations and Blog Posts
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Looking for an evaluation related cartoon for your next presentation or blog post? Well, over the last decade I’ve drawn hundreds. In this post, I’m sharing 111 of my evaluation cartoons, including a lot of community favorites. Please feel free to save to […]
La evaluación en tiempo real en emergencias
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at triplead.blog. Hoy traigo a través del resumen que hizo INTRAC sobre el tema, algunas ideas sobre evaluación en tiempo real. Una evaluación en tiempo real (RTE) está diseñada para proporcionar retroalimentación inmediata (en tiempo real) a aquellos que planifican o ejecutan un proyecto o […]
How to “Quantify” Qualitative Data
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Let’s be clear: sums and frequencies are not the desired product of qualitative questions. In qualitative approaches, we want to describe, to present details and nuances and interesting outliers. But as evaluators, we need to do more than just report what is—we […]
¿Hasta dónde se atrevería la evaluación para salvar el mundo?
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at triplead.blog. Tomé un hilo de Twitter hoy de Dana Linnell Wanzer, en el que Dana indicaba que estaba leyendo el artículo de Robert Stake “¿Hasta dónde se atrevería la evaluación para salvar el mundo?“ sobre la defensa o promoción de la evaluación. Stake argumenta […]
Zero
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. I have long lobbied for museums to avoid using numbers as indicators of their success. I note in Intentional Practice for Museums: A Guide for Maximizing Impact that when museums boast their success with numbers, such as the number of annual exhibits and […]
The COVID Slide
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at engagewithdata.com. Last week, I watched a powerful webinar from Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center about health inequity and COVID-19. One of the first speakers, Dr. Nwando Olayiwola, started to talk about vulnerable populations but quickly corrected herself. She called them, “populations that have been […]
Three Types of Evaluation for Nonprofits (Simple Overview)
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at connectingevidence.com/blog.