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The risks of focusing on the easy-to-measure
Some more developments in UK development funding, an issue we looked at in a post a few weeks ago. Lawrence Haddad, Director of the Institute for Development Studies has an interesting article in the Guardian in response to David Cameron’s … Continue reading
Oxford admissions essay: “simple, yet devilish” … An evaluation aptitude test?
Many thanks to Michael Quinn Patton for sending us through this gem (from the New York Times) about a rather interesting essay exam for selecting graduate students into All Souls College in Oxford, England. Continue reading
Posted in Education, Personnel evaluation
Tagged Personnel evaluation, predictive validity, student assessment, UK
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How can transparency efforts adequately report on long-term and hard to measure results?
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 transparency.
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£6 million over 5 years – and STILL no genuine evaluation of Blueprint?
When a large and expensive evaluation fails to produce useful results, it’s worth seeing if at least it can be useful as a cautionary tale. Blueprint is a UK Government-funded drugs education programme consisting of five components: drug education in … Continue reading
Posted in Adequate scope, Causal inference, Causal inference strategies, Education, Evaluation team composition, Evaluative questions & answers, Government programs, Learning from failure, The client's role
Tagged Causal inference, comparisons, drug education, government, sample size, statistical power, UK
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