This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. Last week, I led an IRB 101 workshop for the Visitor Studies Association. IRB is the acronym for Institutional Review Board. That short three-letter acronym, IRB, can instill a lot of fear and anxiety in researchers and evaluators for multiple reasons. For one, […]
Gen Z are Investigators: What Does This Mean for Cultural Institutions?
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. Summer is here, and with it, a new guest blogger series! Today we are excited to share a new post by our friend Sadiya Akasha of Sitara Systems. Sadiya is a researcher, product designer, and expert on Gen Z (people born between 1995 […]
Summarize, visualize, Analyze
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at engagewithdata.com. Summarize, visualize, analyze In my last post, I asked for feedback about what you’d like to learn about in our summer of figuring out the “so what?” of our data. To my amusement, a longtime colleague and friend replied to my LinkedIn post […]
Selective Justice Isn’t Just
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. This week’s post was written by Khalil Bitar. Khalil is an evaluator and M&E specialist who has been a leading voice in the EvalYouth global movement. He was also the founder and first president of the Palestinian Evaluation Association (launched in 2013). I […]
Innovation Like An Epidemiologist
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. What if innovation was like epidemiology? What if we wanted to understand the source, scope, scale, and spread of an idea or product? That’s one way that we think about the innovation process. Innovation – like a virus — is similar to infectious […]
Participatory Approaches For Nonprofits
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at connectingevidence.com/blog.
Evaluation Roundup – June 2021
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 How Funders Seek and Use Knowledge to Influence Philanthropic Practice […]
Move like a jellyfish
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at b3consults.com. I was really struggling with how to talk about my intention for 2021. The idea of saying out loud that I intended to “do less” didn’t sound right (but that’s where I started), even if the idea is that I need to do […]
Collaboration, Expertise, and Museum Education: Reflections from a COVID-era Furlough
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. By: Sarah Boyd Alvarez In early April I returned to work after a three month furlough. While being furloughed was not welcome news in an already challenging year for the field of museum education, this period away from my job as an art […]
Measuring policy advocacy
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at winderl.net. Monitoring policy work is tricky. But it doesn’t have to be. It’s not impossible – and certainly can be useful. Here is a proposal of how it can be done. We need a tool! This tool measures the extent to which an organization has influenced changes in policies. […]