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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
Archives
Category Archives: Government programs
Update on ‘alpine whaling’ – scientific grazing
We recently reported on some curious developments in evidence-based policy in the state of Victoria in Australia, where the newly-elected State Government had overturned previous policy to keep cattle out of alpine national parks, arguing there was insufficient evidence to … Continue reading
Posted in Adequate scope, Appropriate reporting, Government programs
Tagged bull, cows
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Whatever happened to evidence-based policy? Episode 1
I had thought most governments were now largely avowed supporters of evidence-based policy. Some recent examples from Australia have made me wonder what’s going on. Here’s the first of a worrying series. 1. Target 155 This program aimed to get … Continue reading
Posted in Government programs, Uncategorized
Tagged evidence-based policy, spin, water
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Friday Funny – community engagement and evidence-based policy
Policy that is developed in response to clearly identified needs and through careful processes of community engagement – while being feasible in an adversarial political system and short timeframes? Time for the Hollowmen to show us how it can be … Continue reading
Sincerity in evaluation – highlights and lowlights
Principles of Genuine Evaluation When we set out to explore the notion of ‘Genuine Evaluation’, we identified 5 important aspects of it: VALUE-BASED -transparent and defensible values (criteria of merit and worth and standards of performance) EMPIRICAL – credible evidence … Continue reading
Punished for productivity – poor use of an average in performance evaluation
Developing good performance indicators is not easy. The history of their use is littered with examples of how they can produce a distorted picture of performance and provide dysfunctional incentives. Burt Perrin’s report to the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation … Continue reading
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