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Recent Posts
- Evaluation of marketing – grappling with the important but hard to measure outcomes
- The Friday Funny: A surrealistic mega-analysis of redisorganization theories
- Getting the facts straight on youth unemployment rates
- The Friday Funny: Negotiating the budget
- The Friday Funny: Evaluation and content expertise
Recent Comments
- Michael Scriven on Evaluation of marketing – grappling with the important but hard to measure outcomes
- Kathleen Lynch on The Friday Funny: Negotiating the budget
- Heather Nunns on Friday Funny – 10 ways of knowing you’ve been an evaluator too long
- Tarina MacDonald on 9 golden rules for commissioning a waste-of-money evaluation
- Tarina MacDonald on Valuing cultural expertise – in $$ terms
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Author Archives: Patricia Rogers & Jane Davidson
The Friday Funny: A surrealistic mega-analysis of redisorganization theories
Business Cartoon by Andertoons It’s a puzzling fact that one of the most costly and stressful organizational change strategies – restructuring – is virtually NEVER subjected to any serious evaluation. The reshuffling of lines and boxes; the layoffs; the unwanted … Continue reading
The Friday Funny: Negotiating the budget
As evaluators, don’t we all just love the client who insists on the Rolls Royce evaluation with all its bells and whistles … but is prepared to pay for little more than a rickety bicycle? Even better, don’t you love … Continue reading
The Friday Funny: Evaluation and content expertise
How important is content expertise for an evaluator? We have discussed in a previous post the circumstances under which evaluators require not only evaluation expertise but a deep knowledge of the subject matter itself. And in another (a Friday Funny) … Continue reading
The Friday Funny: Interviewing skills for challenging cases
Part of every evaluator’s skill set is striking that delicate balance in interviewing stakeholders between open-ended, non-leading questioning and making sure we can get to the heart of what we need to know. This is no trivial task, particularly with … Continue reading
The Friday Funny: How to write like a scientist
A couple of years ago we quoted a paper on psychological research called “Keeping it simple” (Peterson & Park, 2010) that observed: … the evidence of history is clear that the research studies with the greatest impact in psychology are … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, clarity, communication, scientific, simplicity, writing
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Jane at Real Evaluation
Patricia at CIRCLE (RMIT)