Category Archives: Personnel evaluation

The Friday Funny: Acceptance of evaluative conclusions

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Patricia Rogers & Jane Davidson

It was Michael Scriven‘s birthday this week, which is a fine time to introduce our Friday Funny with a short quote from the Evaluation Thesaurus, which lists the following entry. As evaluators, we are all familiar with this phenomenon in … Continue reading →

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The Friday Funny: Things Not To Say at a Job Interview

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Patricia Rogers & Jane Davidson

Personnel evaluation is always a rich source of evaluation humor – and often with interesting parallel implications for program, policy and project evaluation. Here’s a classic that’s done the rounds on the Internet; we found this one at Pinetree.com’s inbox … Continue reading →

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Cool ideas from personnel evaluation: Evaluative rubrics

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Jane Davidson

Well, this week is Evaluation Week at SIOP (the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology) and SIOP week on the AEA365 blog. So, it’s a good time to consider some of the synergies across the two disciplines. My doctoral training … Continue reading →

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The Friday Funny: Performance evaluation translations

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Patricia Rogers & Jane Davidson

Performance appraisals, like many program and policy evaluations, often contain ‘coded’ language to diplomatically convey evaluative feedback. It’s always helpful to have a translation guide for those not used to reading (or writing) such ‘code’ … and to ponder the more serious question of whether the ‘code’ might actually be so obscure that evaluation readers/users won’t actually get the subtleties (and may even infer the opposite from the truth) … Continue reading →

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Oxford admissions essay: “simple, yet devilish” … An evaluation aptitude test?

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Jane Davidson

Many thanks to Michael Quinn Patton for sending us through this gem (from the New York Times) about a rather interesting essay exam for selecting graduate students into All Souls College in Oxford, England. Continue reading →

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