This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Happy weirdo 2020 Halloween everyone! Mask Wearing Monster Which one is really the monster? Also, it’s hard to remember to cover the nose when drawing cartoon characters with masks. A boo is an output Not sure how many output/outcome cartoons a single illustrator […]
Listening to What Data Users *Say* They Need… but Giving Them What They *Actually* Need
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. I recently had the chance to talk with Zach Bowders on his podcast, Data + Love. Zach is a data analyst, a Tableau Public Ambassador, and passionate about data visualization and data storytelling. We sat down at night after our kids were in […]
Activity Analysis
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. This simple technique is among the most powerful at eliciting a lot of information. When we look at an existing service, it may be easy to describe what people do to deliver, manage, and receive the service in simple terms. For example, an […]
Try This: A Simple Way to Get Feedback on Your Program
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at nicoleclarkconsulting.com. Try this out and let me know how it goes. One of my favorite things to do is come up with things on the fly, and today’s Try This is one of those moments. I was hired by a client organization early in […]
Try This: A Simple Way to Get Program Feedback
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at nicoleclarkconsulting.com. Try this out and let me know how it goes. One of my favorite things to do is come up with things on the fly, and today’s Try This is one of those moments. I was hired by a client organization early in […]
Evaluator Inspired Cartoons
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. The majority of what I would consider to be my best cartoons have always been the products of simple collaboration. Here is how it works. I talk to another evaluator and ask them if there is anything they are struggling with or if […]
Re-envisioning a University’s Monthly Report: Two Reports with Two Different Purposes
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. A million years ago, I was invited to be the keynote speaker for the Southeastern Library Assessment Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. As part of that process, we redesigned several of their existing reports and dashboards. Before When asked to submit their existing visualizations […]
We can’t let them fall through the cracks.
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at structuredsolutionsllc.org. I started writing a completely different blog post for this week, but when I read the news this morning, I knew I had to shift gears. CNN featured a story yesterday called “Teachers and social workers search for students who are ‘missing’ in […]
How Am I? I’m Sitting in the Suck
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at elizabethgrim.com. “How are you?” Ugh this question makes me cringe. My answer to this is usually “fine.” And not because I am. I am most certainly not fine right now. As an evaluator, I am a professional question asker. And yet personally, the hardest […]
Más problemas estructurales de los gobiernos para aprender en tiempos de COVID
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at triplead.blog. Fuente: https://blogs.iadb.org/salud/es/priorizar-el-gasto-en-salud/ Siguiendo con COVID y barreras gubernamentales para el aprendizaje, profundizamos un poco más sobre estas barreras y cómo los gobiernos desperdician grandes sumas de dinero y crean planes masivos que pocas veces funcionan, siendo la mayoría de las veces las causas […]