There’s a unique and extremely challenging barrier to singing the ‘no value-free’ parts of the genuine evaluation song in a higher education (a.k.a. tertiary education) setting. And that’s what Michael Scriven calls the value-free doctrine. Last week I delivered the … Continue reading
I posted yesterday about the importance of visible values in evaluation. This means being clear and transparent about the definitions of quality and value used when identifying criteria, evaluating performance against them based on evidence, and weighing up the pros … Continue reading
The “no value-free” line of the Genuine Evaluation song (composed by the incomparable Kataraina Pipi, evaluator and composer/musician, with input from several other genuine evaluators!) was inspired by an earlier post where we defined genuine evaluation and drew some lines … Continue reading
This year’s winner of the AEA Lazarsfeld award for contributions to evaluation theory, Jonny Morell, is thinking up a storm again, asking some questions that most people have just never thought of. He’s asking on his blog whether evaluators’ political … Continue reading
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