Tag Archives: values

How good is a “good” outcome?

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Jane Davidson

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 →

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Sizeless Science?

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Jane Davidson

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 →

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Three powerful and authentic questions about evaluation and cultural context

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Tererai Trent

In reading the comments in response to my earlier post, The Importance of Values for Substantiating Evaluative Conclusions , three questions strike me as powerful and authentic in addressing evaluation theory and practice within the context of culture What ‘really’ … Continue reading →

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The importance of values for substantiating evaluative conclusions

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Tererai Trent

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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What does a learning-enabled organizational culture look like?

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Jane Davidson
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