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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
The importance of visible, high level commitment to evaluation
One of the favorite stories I tell about evaluation is about going to meet a senior manager to discuss evaluation and finding him standing on a table in the middle of an open-plan office, with the staff gathered around him, … Continue reading
How much evidence is needed for policy?
In the last few days before the Australian federal election, a curious $5million advertising campaign has been launched which claims to be advocating evidence-based policy but does nothing of the kind.
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Managing genuine evaluation paradoxes: Genuine reporting
In reponse to the earlier post on genuine evaluation snippets from around the globe, Irene Guijt raised a very important question about the tensions between several hallmarks of genuine evaluation: Some important contrasts presented but also one that doesn’t entirely … Continue reading
More utterly uncritical media reporting of evaluation
As an evaluator, or even as an interested member of the public, what very basic fundamental information would you expect to see in a newspaper article that kicked off like this?
Chiefs get good marks even if departments don’t
Public sector leaders are mostly embracing challenges thrown to them by the Government, though at least one is “lost at sea”, a report says.
The Trans Tasman Media report, which ranks government agencies and bosses, has found that chief executives are generally performing better than their departments. Continue reading
“Ripping off the cloak of secrecy” – British PM pledge
New UK Government commits to “ripping off the cloak of secrecy”. How long will this thirst for transparency last?
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