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Posted by: Jane Davidson & Patricia Rogers
What’s not to love about the great ideas for data visualization that have taken evaluation by storm over the past few years? Awesome! Perhaps not the most visually stunning example, but here’s Google Analytics’ map of where Genuine Evaluation’s 28,470 visits came from last year (2013). Read the whole post –> How to distort reality Photo source: seeminglee on flickr After last week’s popular podcast on using rubrics in evaluation (Jane was interviewed by James and Kylie on Adventures in Evaluation), we were delighted when the New York Times published the real rubric used at Harvard University for grading student work! Here’s a snippet from the first section Read the whole post –> The Friday Funny: Harvard’s Grading Rubric 
Posted by: Jane Davidson What are complex organizations doing right when it comes to evaluation, and where are they missing opportunities to apply their own best practices in other areas? Saville Kushner keynoting at AES 2013 There is much that universities (and other organizations) do right, particularly in some of their intradisciplinary Read the whole post –> Self evaluation in complex organizations – including universities 
Posted by: Jane Davidson It’s been a fun couple of weeks, and one of the highlights for me was a guest appearance on James Coyle and Kylie Hutchinson’s Adventures in Evaluation podcast series! We talked about: how and why I started using rubrics in evaluation (the answer to this might surprise you!) what rubrics Read the whole post –> Evaluation Rubrics podcast: Jane Davidson interviewed on Adventures in Evaluation! 
When can a wrong answer be better than a right one? As evaluators, we all know the answer to that question in a program/policy/project evaluation space: When the unintended effects turned out to be even better than the intended effects that weren’t achieved! Here’s a cute example of the same thing pulled from Read the whole post –> The Friday Funny: The very best totally wrong test answers |
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