This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. There’s a really great device that Michael Quinn Patton offers for use in developmental evaluation called ‘sensitizing concepts’. He’s borrowed it from qualitative research methods as a way of providing guidance to inquiry in complexity. Here’s a definition he gives in his qualitative […]
I have a complex relationship with my back
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Photo by Charles 🇵🇭 on Unsplash. I hurt my back last week. This is not news. I’ve been hurting my back since 2013. About six months after I finished grad school, toward the end of my work-day, I noticed that my […]
Winter Doldrums and the New Year
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at communityevaluationsolutions.com. Not sure what the weather is like where you are, but here in Georgia, its raining. AGAIN! I think it has been raining for 6 weeks straight. We are on track to have the second rainiest season Georgia has ever had so I […]
(Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know about Carolyn’s Pronouns
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Pronouns are small little words to cause such a fuss, am I right? In my ideal world, my pronouns would require no footnotes, no extra explanation, or citations. But as we don’t live in a gender utopia, at least a little explanation is […]
Looking back on 2018… and forward to 2019
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com This year was jam-packed with excitement! Some of my highlights of 2018 are shared below. I got my first two publications! In a Survey Methods class in 2015, three other students and I did a survey project creating a scale measuring aesthetic experiences, […]
Comment on Wisdom from the Woods: Everything Looks Scarier in the Darkness by Evaluator as Acrobat: The Art of Flexibility – Elizabeth Grim
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at elizabethgrim.com. […] we watched the sunset over the mountains was dissipating. I realized then that 1) I did not want to camp alone in near/sub-freezing temperatures and 2) I still had time to get off the mountain in daylight. I […]
Evaluator as Acrobat: The Art of Flexibility
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at elizabethgrim.com. Each day I spend on the trail, walking, running, or hiking teaches me something about myself and the universe. One of the most important lessons I have learned is the art of flexibility. Understanding how to navigate dynamic systems is a key part […]
Adventures in Teaching: Redoing Assignments
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com As many of you are aware, I am teaching my first undergraduate-level course this semester. I have posted about how I didn’t realize how much work the syllabus and planning a course takes (blog post 1 and 2) as well as how I found […]
Bottom-Up Peace: Everyday Peace Indicators Project
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at katherinehaugh.com/. Hi everyone! I hope you are all doing well. I wanted to take a moment to share something I created in collaboration with The Everyday Peace Indicators Project (EPI). EPI creates everyday indicators of difficult-to-measure concepts such as peace, reconciliation, governance and violent extremism. […]
Adventures in Teaching: Taking Advantage of Peer Review
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com Due to the Thanksgiving holiday this week, I cancelled our Monday morning class. However, this would mean 3 weeks of not meeting in class given two Monday holidays this year, so I made the class an online one instead. I decided to have […]