I am writing in response to Chris’ Evaluation as Protest blog. I appreciate the blog’s call to action and hope the examples of concrete actions shared will inspire evaluators to imagine something different and to take action. While reading the blog, I noticed that a perspective was missing: the police and prison abolitionist movement. Instead, […]
Evaluation, Compassion Fatigue, and Health Inequity
Doing something is a good start. But it’s not enough. As evaluators we deal with all sorts of programs and activities that were launched out of a need to do something. Programs that keep on doing something, or something else, or something ineffective, or something effective, or something counterproductive, or something amazing, or nothing. And […]
DataViz for Anti-Racism [Free Course]
No new cartoons or lengthy blog post this week. Instead I launched a course. It only has one module now, but I have plans for more. And did I mention it was free? What you will learn Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James […]
Rules for Privileged Straight White Males – Dr. Andrea’s Rewrite
This post was originally written by Dr. Andrea Guerrero- Guajardo as a direct response to Michael Quinn Patton’s blog post “Rules for Privileged Straight White Males.” It was published to Google Docs on June 6, 2020 as a personal blog post and shared on EvalTalk as a contribution to the overall discussion. The words in this […]
Evaluation as Protest
Ahmaud Arbery. Sean Reed. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. George Floyd. When does this racial terror end? For the past three months, our communities have been inundated with painful stories and images of Black people targeted, harassed, arrested, and killed by police and racist vigilantes. As Black people all across the country grapple with the aftermath of […]
So what is evaluation anyway?
Post originally published as a collection of 13 evaluation cartoons on March 25, 2014. Updated with way more context on May 27, 2020. When you search “What is Evaluation?” on Google, you get the kinds of responses you might expect. The Wikipedia page…if a topic is important enough it will have a Wikipedia page. And […]