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! New and Noteworthy — Reads The Complexity Evaluation Toolkit The Centre for the Evaluation of […]
Scope Creep: When to Indulge it, and When to Avoid it
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. In most evaluation plans, we try to define scope. Defining evaluation scope means putting boundaries around things like: Time – defining what timeframe of the initiative you will include in your evaluation, or how long you will be undertaking evaluation work People – […]
Consent Part 1: What is Informed Consent
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. As an evaluator, a big part of our role is to collect data. Sometimes that data comes from administrative databases that require data sharing agreements, but sometimes it comes from people, who need to consent to sharing their information (or data) with […]
Creating a Powerful Presentation: 3 Easy Changes to Revamp your PowerPoint
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Depict Data Studio full courses always end with a graduation ceremony where students share the progress they’ve made in the course. I’m always amazed by the transformations that take place and I can’t help but want to share their wonderful work! Today you’ll […]
Concept Scenarios + Storyboards for Service Design
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. If you are looking to generate a sense of what your planned service looks like in practice why not draw it out? Filmmakers know the importance of the process of storyboarding. A storyboard is simply a visual representation of what you expect might […]
Geological Context of Climate Change: Implications for Public Understanding and Museum Relevance
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. By: Emlyn Koster With climate change and extreme weather frequently in the news and in light of the upcoming UN COP26 Conference, Emlyn taps his geological insights to point out what is often missing from society’s knowledge and which therefore warrants the museum […]
Decision Making Model for Nonprofits
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at connectingevidence.com/blog.
Ask Nicole: Prepping for Your Consultant/Partner Discovery Call
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. After searching the internet, asking your networks for referrals, and scouring social media, you’ve finally found someone or a team that you can see your organization working with. Checking out their website, […]
Data Dictionary: the what, why and how
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. Technological advances have resulted in the collection of large amounts of data and the availability of data continues to skyrocket. To give you a perspective, more data has been collected in the past two years (2019 & 2020) than the entire human […]
Dashboards for 10-Year-Olds: Connecting Data to Students’ Lived Experience
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Bob Coulter is the director of the Litzsinger Road Ecology Center, a 38-acre field site in suburban St. Louis. He’s also a Depict Data Studio student and when he shared his work in our graduation ceremony, I knew it needed to be showcased. […]