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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: Techniques
Credentialing – identifying the ‘core’ vs ‘specialized’ competencies
There’s a great discussion going on right now on the AEA Thought Leaders’ Forum. This week it’s being led by Jean King, who has raised the question of credentialing for evaluators. Not all our subscribers are AEA members and following … Continue reading
Strategies for improving the quality of evaluation – the independent evaluation advisor
How can we improve the quality of evaluations – especially evaluations that are done by external evaluators of evaluation teams? Improving the procurement process is an important part of this, as Jane has recently discussed (9 hot tips for commissioning, … Continue reading
9 hot tips for commissioning, managing (and doing!) actionable evaluation
High quality, worthwhile, actionable evaluation doesn’t just depend on the technical competence and effective consultation skills of the evaluator. Decisions made and actions taken (or not taken) by the client can make or break the value of evaluation for an … Continue reading
Lifting the quality of evaluation #3: Evaluation associations with focus
Two things that make or break the quality and value of evaluation are: Evaluation-savvy clients Capable evaluators who know their ‘space’ What’s #3? #3: Professional evaluation associations with focus! The vast majority of professional evaluation associations around the world are … Continue reading
Lifting the quality of evaluation #2: Capable evaluators who know their ‘space’
What key elements are needed to seriously drive up how well evaluation delivers quality and value for money? Yesterday I talked about how evaluation-savvy clients can make or break the value of evaluation. Now for the other side of the … Continue reading
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