Today’s cartoon inspired by David Fetterman, who left this in a comment on last Friday’s ethnography blog post. For those who don’t know David, he’s written a significant book on the subject. Wonderful posting and drawing of course. You might add the role of cultural interpretation to the mix. The difference between the wink and […]
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What is your Tabla?
Today’s cartoon was inspired by a story on NPR about The Tabla Master Who Jammed With The Grateful Dead: In the 1960s, Western musicians were becoming interested in Indian music, and Hussain found himself working on a sitar record with George Harrison. He told the Beatle about his dream to get into rock. “And he said, […]
Defining Outliers – cartoon flashback
Today’s cartoon flashback comes from a post featuring ethics stories contributed by a silent collaborator. I think this was my favorite of the bunch. Defining Outlier Evaluators: “Here are the results from your program.” Client: “Those results aren’t accurate.” Evaluators: “How so?” Client: “The bad results are obviously outliers. You need to remove those people from […]
Participatory Evaluation
Today’s cartoon inspiration comes from Leslie Groves and Irene Guijt on Better Evaluation: Participation not for you? Four reflections that might just change your mind For us, “participatory evaluation” requires primary stakeholders to be included as co-evaluators, both to ensure the inclusion of their voices and values in evaluation and to help them strengthen their evaluation capacity. […]
Ethnography and Real Research
If you’ve taken enough sociology classes you likely had this assignment at some point, “go somewhere and watch.” And if it’s a grad class you might get asked to go back to the same place several times. Looking back today, these were some of my most memorable academic moments and something I’ve definitely carried with me over the […]
Summative, Formative and Developmental
Over the years I’ve noticed that many of the most influential thinkers carry with them some great metaphors to help describe their work. It also makes for great cartoon fodder. Today’s cartoon inspired by Michael Quinn Patton from his book on Developmental Evaluation: Distinguished evaluation theorist and practitioner Bob Stake has explained, “When the cook tastes the soup, […]