This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. What often can hold our change initiatives back are mental models about how or why something happens. Historically, many innovations and discoveries were held back or failed outright because people were unable to see or believe what was in front of them. By […]
Evaluation Roundup – June 2020
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 or connect on LinkedIn! New and Noteworthy — Reads Last month we highlighted Khalil […]
Ask Nicole: How Can I Raise My Voice When No One is Around to Hear Me?
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at nicoleclarkconsulting.com. Have a question you’d like to be featured? Let me know. I received an overwhelming number of responses from one of my recent blog posts, “Your Values Always Come at a Cost”. So much so, that the majority of that post’s comments came […]
Improve Your Logic Model Using 3 Simple Design Principles
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. A recent study in the American Journal of Evaluation showed how three simple visual design principles could be applied to logic models to make them more effective and understandable. This article summarizes the findings of that study so you can improve your […]
Sensemaking in Crisis
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. Sensemaking is a social process that helps us make sense of data, information, and knowledge in a time of complexity. It’s used often in innovation contexts when we are fitting data to a unique situation. The RSA (the Royal Society for the encouragement […]
Three Takeaways from the User Experience (UX) Field to Up Your Data Viz Game
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. This article–and four video lessons!–come from Brenna Butler, who researched user experience as part of her doctoral program. Thanks for your contributions to our field, Brenna! –Ann Hi all, Brenna Butler here to walk you through what the field of User Experience (UX) […]
Why is it so hard to get a survey translated?
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at engagewithdata.com. I admit: I didn’t think it was that hard to get a survey translated. Over the past few weeks, I learned just how wrong I was — and ate a big piece of humble pie in the process. With colleagues, I’m working on […]
Three Ways to Increase the Chances Your Evaluation Results Will Actually Get Used
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Utilization of evaluation results can be underwhelming to the well-intentioned evaluator. Time and time again, we hear of people going through an evaluation only to be disappointed that the findings didn’t give them the answers they wanted. It is such a big […]
Caution: Laying Off Museum Educators May Burn Bridges to the Communities Museums Serve
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. I started this blog about a month ago in frustration about the layoffs of museum educators (and other front-of-house staff although I am going to speak specifically about my experiences with museum educators). I wrote it in a fury one night, and each […]
Evaluation, Compassion Fatigue, and Health Inequity
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Doing something is a good start. But it’s not enough. As evaluators we deal with all sorts of programs and activities that were launched out of a need to do something. Programs that keep on doing something, or something else, or something ineffective, […]