3rd November 2014 by MQuinnP
The 4th edition of Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods by Michael Quinn Patton will be published in mid-November, 2014. A new feature is one personal “rumination” in each chapter.
31st October 2014 by deborah o'connell
[Editor's note, 02/12/14: a previous version of this blog was published without images, this has now been corrected.]
28th October 2014 by Nick Herft
Following up from Stephanie Evergreen's seminar on Presenting data effectively, we've been working with her to improve our Data visualisation section. We've added new charts, updated descriptions and examples, and linked to more resources to help you develop charts.
We've added 7 new charts to our data viz section:
17th October 2014 by Patricia Rogers
Two years ago, during the European Evaluation Society conference in Helsinki, the BetterEvaluation.org website went live for public access. We had been working with an international group of beta-partners to develop the site before this time.
The BetterEvaluation project grew out of a realisation of the need
15th October 2014 by Patricia Rogers
To celebrate the start of the 2014 conference of the American Evaluation Association, we're delighted to be able to share the lyrics and music of the Visionary Evaluation AEA 2014 song to make it easier to sing along during and after the conference.
1st October 2014 by Beverly Parsons
Thanks to everyone for your posts about the AEA conference theme and for reading the blogs. With each post, I have learned something new and have been stimulated to think about the theme in a different way.
30th September 2014 by Will Allen
This year’s AEA theme of visionary evaluation challenges evaluators to consider how their work can contribute to a sustainable future. In this week’s blog post, we’ve asked Will Allen for advice about how evaluations can address sustainability.
When we talk about a “sustainable future” what do we mean?
19th September 2014 by John Donnelly
This is #3 in our series on visionary evaluation. Why is equity so important in evaluation? How can evaluations be better designed to account for equity issues?
15th September 2014 by bob williams
This is #2 in our series on visionary evaluation. This year’s AEA Conference theme is visionary evaluation – systems thinking, equity and sustainability. Which begs the question what is systems thinking?
There are dozens of definitions but for me it is the combination of three things:
…. And how does that contribute to visionary evaluation?
5th September 2014 by Beverly Parsons
Today we start a series on "visionary evaluation" - the theme of the 2014 American Evaluation Association conference in October. The series is designed to encourage discussion of these issues to inform presentations and discussions at the conference and to allow a global conversation about them.
