Dissemination that Actually Works
I asked Michael Quinn Patton what he thinks is the biggest challenge evaluators will face over the next five years. He gave me a two part answer. This is the first part, and it inspired the above …
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Jason Ravitz, who is an Evaluation Manager for K-12 Outreach at Google, got in touch to offer an idea that inspired the cartoon up top. What do you think of my attempt? Here is his original …
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I created this video for one of my workshop modules. I always liked the soup metaphor when talking about the differences between summative and formative evaluation. With this video I tried to take …
So my latest diydatadesign module focuses on creating an interactive infographic using a free easy-to-use web tool called Adobe Spark. For the example I decided to create an evaluation related …
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So I've only been independent for half a year but I've certainly learned one thing. If you have to spend a lot of time defining or explaining something, it's going to be a hard sell. Which brings …
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Evan Scott's day started just like most other days. At his desk, staring at a clogged email inbox and a stack of papers filled with things that somehow or another needed his attention. If he had …
"Oh yeah, we have someone like you." I remember when I first heard that. I thought to myself, "really, you have a cartooning sociologist techie and blogger who also happens to have a decade of …
Far too many research and evaluation teams prioritize high quality dissemination like I prioritize learning a second language. It’s definitely on my list of things to do one day, but it’s so far down …
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So I've heard a lot of disdain for long reports over the years. They're easy targets and get picked on often (even I take a shot every now and again). But here's a secret. I actually kind of like …
So the interactive logic model post was a big hit. I kept getting a similar question, so I decided to create a short follow-up. Here goes...I used icons from thenounproject, sketched it all out in …
A logic model, or theory of change, is one of the most common forms of visualization you'll find in any evaluation report. They can be critical in helping a program or project think through the …
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Thank you for all the lovely comments/emails. So many of you said you wanted to hang it up on the wall I decided to make something a little more wall friendly. You can now get the poem/cartoon as a …
