Today's “Why Evaluate” cartoon inspired by Jonathan Mwewa: Evaluation helps you to answer to key questions of the existence of your project or programme including relevance?, cost effectiveness?, efficiency?, replicability? and sustainability? We need to evaluate our work because we need to be accountable for the resources that we use because resources are scarce and […]
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Blogging Advice – Short Version
So a little while ago I compiled a really long blogging advice post. But because everyone is overwhelmed, here is a really short post. You should start a blog because it gives you a platform where you have complete control. Here is how you start. 1. Go to wordpress.com and sign up. You’ll need an […]
IF statements in Excel to check for bad sorts
An Excel spreadsheet is really easy to corrupt. It's why syntax backed analysis programs have an edge, they keep an audit trail. Maybe you forgot to extend the auto filter across all of your columns. Or maybe you copy and pasted in some new data that just happened to be sorted by state abbreviation instead […]
Write every single day
I'm stuck in a rut. There is a ton that I want you to know. Things that I get asked. Things I feel evaluators would find valuable. Things that keep me up at night. But for some reason they just sit in my head. I need to shake them loose. Starting today I'm a daily […]
Why Evaluate: 5 cartoons inspired by comments
In my first Why Evaluate post I asked for a little help coming up with more reasons. You came through in a big way, with a string of comments on my post and on LinkedIn/Twitter. Here is a set inspired by the post comments. I’ll have more based on the Social Media replies coming soon. […]
6 developmental evaluation cartoons
Last week was developmental evaluation week on AEA365, so it seems like a good time to share some of my related cartoons. Many of these were inspired by a Michael Quinn Patton talk at last year’s evaluation conference. But there are at least two more recent ones here that you have not seen. Input not scheduled […]