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Michael Quinn Patton, a giant in the field of evaluation, has been getting queries from colleagues young and old, novice evaluators and long-time practitioners, asking how he’s making sense of the global health emergency and what I think the implications may be for evaluation. Her’s his take on where we are and what it means.
Have you ever wanted to engage with thousands of individuals from the evaluation community? Perhaps gather for a shared experience […]
One of the founding fathers of the field of evaluation, Daniel L. Stufflebeam of Western Michigan University, has died at age 80.
An Australian directive to measure the engagement with and impact of academic research can itself by improved by applying new research.
It’s self-evident that the independence of any evaluation, and the integrity of its findings, is paramount. Yet there’s a a clear threat to the integrity of many evaluations: pressure from the stakeholders who hired the evaluator.
Jean Stockard and Tim Wood looked at the U.S. Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse and asked a very similar question – does this work? They found that the answer is often no, but that doesn’t have to be the case.
Teacher observations are both costly and time intensive, but perhaps it’s time to invest in better teacher evaluation to get better student results. So argues Robert Pianta, who has personally helped develop some measures that might achieve such high hopes, in a an article in the journal PIBBS..
Would federal government agencies benefit from having a CEO — that is, a chief evaluation officer?
When impacts vary from one subgroup to another, then focusing on average treatment effects may underestimate the impacts, according to a recent article by Bradford Chaney.
We’re pleased to let you know about an important new title from SAGE Publications: Enhancing Evaluation Use by Marlène Läubli Loud and […]
There is no doubt that humor captures people’s attention. For social marketers, who aim to change individuals’ behavior in order […]
Reposted from Methodspace: a summary of the NatCen Informing Public Policy New Agendas for Social Research Conference (23-24 April 2009) […]
