Category Archives: Professional development

Strengthening Evaluation Effectiveness – seminar, Washington DC

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Patricia Rogers

I’m in Washington DC this week, after teaching a course on Using Program Theory and Logic Models for Evaluation at The Evaluators Institute. Fortunately I will be able to stay on for a seminar being presented this coming Wednesday by … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – community engagement and evidence-based policy

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Patricia Rogers & Jane Davidson

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 →

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Free webinar on Evaluation and Policies

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Patricia Rogers

Is policy evaluation fundamentally different to program evaluation? How can lessons learned from program evaluation (such as the value of stakeholder involvement) be applied to the evaluation of policies? The next webinar in the series of monthly live webinars on … Continue reading →

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Who’s afraid of the Big Bad … Thought?

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Jane Davidson

At the recent conference of the Australasian Evaluation Society, Tom Schwandt gave an entertaining and thought-provoking keynote in which he talked about a societal phenomenon called ‘phronemophobia’. [Tom assured us this really was an existing word in the English language … Continue reading →

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Free webinar on measurement, risk and uncertainty

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Patricia Rogers

One of the important features of genuine evaluation is appropriate measurement, including dealing with uncertainty, as I was reminded by Chris Coryn of the Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University, in our discussions at the International Summer School on Public … Continue reading →

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