As in the past several years, I'll be live cartooning this year's American Evaluation Association Conference. This post will keep getting updated, so make sure you bookmark it and come back and visit …
A positive spin on failure according to Simon Hearn
Simon Hearn, one of the team of evaluators who put together the 10 things to know about evaluation infographic I mentioned last week, left me a comment on the post. The comment sparked today's …
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I still don’t know the source of the RCT Gold Standard Rhetoric, do you?
Today's cartoon flashback comes from a post I put together early last year on the RCT Gold Standard Rhetoric. I tried, and failed, to find the source of the rhetoric, only a kooky theory about Harry …
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ODI shares 10 things to know about evaluation, number 5 is on failures.
Today's illustration was inspired by an infographic created by the Overseas Development Institute. 5. 'Failures" are important. Evaluation is sometimes driven by desire to show that a …
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How Thomas Archibald thinks we can create an intentional Evaluative Thinking learning environment.
Today's illustration inspired by one part of Tom Archibald's blog post on Fostering Evaluative Thinking. Create an intentional ET learning environment Display logic models or other theory of …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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Eleanor Chelimsky on who evaluators are
After posting his guest post two weeks ago on the 4 missing ps in evaluation, Rakesh Mohan received a comment via email from Eleanor Chelimsky. For the non evaluators, Eleanor Chelimsky has been …
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Baby’s first logic model
Evaluation power couple, and conference friends, David and Amy Shellard are expecting a little one this year. One of their close friend's reached out to me looking for a cartoon to go on a onesie. I …
Professionalizing Evaluation
Like many evaluators I just kind of fell into the field from a career in research (my MA is in sociology). One day I found myself in a non-profit data position doing evaluation work. Then over the …
Over-complicating causality – cartoon flashback
Since I have a lot of new followers, I thought it would be nice to put up some of my older cartoons from time to time. This one has long been one of my favorites, and I still see it popping up in …
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