This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at triplead.blog. Otra de las aportaciones de MQ Patton es sobre la evaluación centrada en principios. El pensamiento centrado en principios es para personas impulsadas por principios que participan en cambios basados en principios. Un principio de eficacia proporciona una guía sobre cómo pensar o […]
Rejecting the Null
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Today’s graphic novella is inspired by the concept of rejecting the null. I created a cartoon about the null hypothesis almost a decade ago. I still find the concept really useful in thinking about evaluation. There is incredible power and importance in the […]
Ma(nua)l para gestor@s: Cómo diseñar una evaluación y morir en el intento
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at triplead.blog. Inspirado en el post “Principios metodológicos para diseñar evaluaciones de alta calidad” y en un taller reciente sobre “Estructuras liberadoras” en evaluación (en concreto de la estructura “Triz“), desarrollé en este post una tormenta perfecta, de cómo asegurar que un proceso evaluativo sea inútil, […]
How to Engage Your Audience with “Choose Your Own Adventure” Presentations
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Ready for an advanced presentation technique? Want to make sure your audience is engaged? No, those 10-minute Q&As at the end of a presentation don’t count as adequate engagement. Let’s notch up our engagement! In this blog post, you’ll learn about the “Choose […]
The limitations of using an advocacy frame to understand and evaluate grassroots-led change
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at medium.com/innovationnetwork. This blog post was originally published in AEA365 during the Advocacy and Policy Change week in March 2021 Over the past year, we have all witnessed the power and promise of grassroots-led change as popular movements and organized communities have galvanized widespread support for […]
Teaching like Evaluation
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com What if we taught like we evaluated? I have been imaging what teaching might look like if we approached it like we did our evaluation work. Just like there are a variety of different approaches and strategies teachers use in their courses (e.g., […]
Principios metodológicos para diseñar evaluaciones de alta calidad
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at triplead.blog. En el reciente informe “Evaluación de las intervenciones de desarrollo internacional: una descripción general de los enfoques y métodos“, se discute acerca de algunos de los principios metodológicos clave del diseño de la evaluación que proporcionan las bases para la selección, adaptación y […]
“You only get as much justice as you have the power to compel.”
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at medium.com/innovationnetwork. This post first appeared in the Luminaire Group monthly newsletter, Be Lumin-Us in August 2019. Twelve years ago, when I began training as a community organizer in New England, I heard the following saying: “You only get as much justice as you have the […]
Schrodinger’s Outcome
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Today’s post is a little evaluation graphic novella inspired by Schrödinger’s cat. No cats, real or fictional, were harmed while creating this post. I’ll drop a plain text version at the bottom. Plain Text Version Schrodinger’s Outcome Imagine a nonprofit program. Let’s say […]
Meet Engage with Data!
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at engagewithdata.com. Meet Engage with Data! Let me be real for a second: when I started Structured Solutions five and a half years ago, I was definitely building the plane as I flew it. So when I had to choose a name, I came up […]