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Category Archives: About/Definition
Genuine Evaluation has a jingle AND a badge!
Lots of fun and creativity this week at the American Evaluation Association conference in San Antonio, Texas: Genuine Evaluation not only has its own jingle, but a button badge! We are distributing button badges only to those who have seen … Continue reading
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
“Genuine evaluation” snippets from across the globe
What does the term “genuine evaluation” mean to the rest of the planet, including those who don’t identify as “evaluators”? We’ve collated a few snippets from our Google Alerts file to give a picture that is sometimes humorous, sometimes actually … Continue reading
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Tagged balance, comparisons, failure, international aid, IT, learning, outcomes, politics, product evaluation, service evaluation
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The Friday Funny: ‘Don’t get genuine with me’ and other Urban Dictionary gems
A constant theme in this blog is exploring the many dimensions of what it means to do genuine evaluation. This week we have some inspiration from the contributions to Urban Dictionary.
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Posted in About/Definition, Civil society engagement, Friday Funnies, The client's role
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Evaluation revisited – conference this week on complexity and evaluation
If you can’t be in the Netherlands this week for the conference on complexity and evaluation, you can follow it through the conference blog http://evaluationrevisited.wordpress.com/.
Posted in About/Definition, Adequate scope, Appropriate criteria and standards, Appropriate inference, Appropriate measurement, Appropriate reporting, Civil society engagement, Evaluation team composition, Evaluative questions & answers, Learning from failure, The client's role, Values-based
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