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.
Qué y Cómo desarrollar del pensamiento evaluativo (I)
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at triplead.blog. M.Q Patton UFE Si consideramos los actuales roles de la función de evaluación, aunque en la actual pandemia (a) se limite la evaluabilidad de las intervenciones clásicas a evaluar, (b) además de la propia evaluación de la respuesta frente a la pandemia y […]
¿Podría el Covid-19 contribuir a unas Naciones (más) Unidas?
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at triplead.blog. En el artículo ¿Es posible reformar Naciones Unidas?, aparecido en El País el 28 de abril, CRISTINA MANZANO nos habla de la necesidad de reformar un sistema de gobernanza global (Naciones Unidas), nacido en 1945, dado que no basta para hacer frente a […]
Social and Emotional Learning is Imperative and in Museum Educators’ Wheelhouse
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. Just months ago (but what feels like an eternity ago), I was in an art museum observing museum educators lead a group of fifth-grade students on a museum visit. One work of art they viewed highlighted inequities in the world by zooming in […]
Evaluabilidad en tiempos de pandemia
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at triplead.blog. Dados los retos que supone la situación actual para la práctica tradicional de la evaluación, empezamos una serie de posts sobre “evaluabilidad”. Entre las agencias internacionales de desarrollo parece haber un acuerdo generalizado sobre el significado del término “evaluabilidad”. La siguiente definición de […]
Post or Perish
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. So I received a little constructive feedback after last week’s post. Just be mindful of the voices you aren’t hearing. For some with ill family members, homeschooling small children, navigating aging parents in place, on top of maintaining stable income — finding time […]