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Genuine Evaluation: Interview with the President! A new podcast from Genuine...

Originally posted at Genuine Evaluation This week we hinted on twitter that we’d have a high-profile guest to interview. Today, Jane Davidson interviews the President! [Sorry, folks; we couldn't resist...

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Genuine Evaluation: The Friday Funny – a theory of change for international...

Originally posted at Genuine Evaluation As we start heading off to the AEA conference in Minnesota next week, it’s timely to share the original theory of change that seems to have been part of...

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Genuine Evaluation: What is evaluation? Getting clarity about who we are as a...

Originally posted at Genuine Evaluation Getting the definition of evaluation right is not simply a matter of having a popularity vote about it. The fact that so many don’t see a clear difference...

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e-valuation: “outcome harvesting”… forensics-informed evaluation approach

Originally posted at e-valuation Outcome Harvesting is an evaluation approach developed by Ricardo Wilson-Grau. Using a forensics approach, outcome harvesting has the evaluator or ‘harvester’...

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Genuine Evaluation: Time for evaluation to ‘take the core’ of the social...

Originally posted at Genuine Evaluation Michael Scriven was in fine form today, keynoting at the Australasian Evaluation Society conference in Brisbane, Australia. So hilarious it may have looked like...

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e-valuation: Evaluation ~ a short description

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E-Valuation: new book ~ Feminist Evaluation & Research: Theory & Practice

Originally posted at E-Valuation Available in April, a new edited book (Guilford Press) that explores the ‘whats,’ ‘whys,’ and ‘hows’ of integrating feminist theory and methods into applied research...

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E-Valuation: an organic, evolving definition of evaluation

Originally posted at E-Valuation Perhaps a step closer to being a discipline, the American Evaluation Association project to define evaluation might signal that we are getting down to the fundamental...

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E-Valuation: Precision measurement ~ sometimes it matters, like in Luge, but...

Originally posted at E-Valuation In some Olympic sports thousandsth of a second matter. In the men’s doubles luge run the difference between the gold and silver medals was about 1/2 a second (.522 of a...

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E-Valuation: Logic Models

Originally posted at E-Valuation Logic models (similar to program theory) are popular in evaluation. The presumption is that programs or interventions can be depicted in a linear input output schema,...

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The Future of Evaluation: A Chat With Michael Scriven

By [author-name] originally posted at Adventures In Evaluation Podcast This week we’re thrilled to have Michael Scriven, frequently called “the father of evaluation”, as our special guest.  Michael...

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Genuine Evaluation: Michael Scriven on the Evaluation Train you boarded

Originally posted at Genuine Evaluation Very excited to see that Kylie Hutchinson and James Coyle have posted their long-anticipated interview with Michael Scriven! Welcome to a tour of the cosmology...

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E-Valuation: Evaluation ~ an overview of basic principles and concepts

Originally posted at E-Valuation An encyclopedia entry that introduces evaluation as a discipline… evaluation To Comment, visit the original post here: E-Valuation

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E-Valuation: the difference between external and independent evaluation

Originally posted at E-Valuation The terms external and independent evaluation are often conflated, largely because external evaluations are (wrongly) assumed to be more independent than internal...

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Genuine Evaluation: Podcast! Michael Scriven and Jane Davidson on...

Originally posted at Genuine Evaluation What’s fundamentally missing from most evaluation work, but absolutely makes or breaks the quality and value of what we do? Find out from this fun and...

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E-Valuation: evaluation and independence… it matters

Originally posted at E-Valuation In the run up to the Academy Awards I was catching up on nominated movies. This past weekend I saw several including The Big Short. A Salon review summarizes the all to...

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