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 We’re delighted to bring Genuine Evaluation followers a new guest blogger next week to enrich the conversation. It is hard to imagine a more amazing journey to become an evaluator and international public speaker than the story of Tererai Trent. From humble beginnings in a cattle-herding family in rural Zimbabwe, where she was denied education Read the whole post –> Tererai Trent joining us as guest blogger next week! Transparent and defensible logical analysis is an essential part of genuine evaluation. This week we revisit a classic piece of scientific and logical analysis from Sir Bedevere and King Arthur. Most impressive about this example is its effectiveness in persuading even the most sceptical stakeholder with the most to lose from the Read the whole post –> Friday Funny – logical analysis  There is still time to sign up for the free webinar with Michael Quinn Patton, Founder and Director, Utilization-focused evaluation, and former President of the American Evaluation Association, and Marco Segone, Systemic management, UNICEF Evaluation Office, Senior advisor to the Executive Board and former IOCE Vice President talking on “Future trends Read the whole post –> Free webinar on Future trends in evaluation TODAY Results from a self-selected samlple reported as if it really represents national sentiment. Sloppy reporting or a deliberate campaign against a new leader in Read the whole post –> The Nation says ‘No’ – misrepresentation of a volunteer sample Public reporting is an important part of genuine evaluation. But is there a risk that programs with long-term outcomes will receive less support than they deserve? The latest developments in the British Government’s move for more Read the whole post –> How can transparency efforts adequately report on long-term and hard to measure results? A tangible illustration of a complex phenomenon that is not readily described in terms of averages or linear Read the whole post –> Video illustrating the application of complexity rules Over-sampling of particular population strata, and subsequent reweighting of the responses to match the population, might be appropriate sometimes, but not when it involves gathering and then discarding data about a politically contentious and high cost program. Read the whole post –> Bad faith survey Many evaluators on earth would list Michael Scriven in their top shortlist of huge contributors to the conceptualization and development of evaluation as a profession and as a discipline. We are delighted to announce that Michael will be our celebrity guest blogger next week (starting on April 19th). Make sure you subscribe to our feed (email or RSS plus comments) so you don’t miss any of the discussion! Read the whole post –> Michael Scriven to be our celebrity guest blogger next week! Just over 7 weeks ago we decided to stop just talking to each other about the notion of genuine evaluation and launch a blog where we could continue to talk about the ideas AND include others in the conversation, highlighting current examples of good and bad evaluation practice, recalling memorable examples from the past, and exploring different aspects of what it means to do evaluation that is not inaccurate, invalid, unevaluative, misdirected, insincere, or misconstrued. Where are our readers from? What’s been on the discussion menu so far? What’s planned for the next few Read the whole post –> Who’s reading Genuine Evaluation? A nice example of collecting and then communicating data comes from the Stop Stock-Outs site. During ‘pill check week’, researchers visited public health institutions countrywide and checked on the availability of a list of 10 essential medicines. These are medicines that should be readily available in public health facilities. Using innovative technology, the team then reported the Read the whole post –> Stop Stock-Outs: Interactive graph of data collected by SMS |
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