The majority of what I would consider to be my best cartoons have always been the products of simple collaboration. Here is how it works. I talk to another evaluator and ask them if there is anything they are struggling with or if there are any complicated things they are having a hard time describing […]
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 […]
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 […]
Evaluation Blogs
So I decided to create what I hope will eventually become an ultimate list of evaluation blogs. Not just a boring bullet point list, but one that gives you a sense of the human being on the other side of the internet. This post is designed to grow. Meaning I plan to come back and […]