Earlier this week I posted about the uninterpretability of the standard Likert scale that asks people to agree or disagree with a statement. I suggested a more evaluative scale that is more interpretable, particularly for survey items that go after … Continue reading
A recent conversation with a colleague has reminded me of how traditional social science training has managed to hardwire our brains into some default thinking that needs to be questioned. Obviously, there are a lot of places one could go … Continue reading
Earlier in the week, I passed on a quote from a review of Ziliak and McCloskey’s (2008) book The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives asserting that: … many researchers are so … Continue reading
With apologies to all for our little bit of downtime over the weekend while we changed servers … Here’s an interesting snippet that came through on a listserv recently from industrial/organizational psychologist Paul Barrett, who spotted a recent review from … Continue reading
The comments shared in response to the earlier post, Culturally Competent Needs Assessment By An “Outsider” raise issues that are critical to the discipline of evaluation. Two things come to mind; a) reflections on how we define evaluation theory, and … Continue reading
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