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.
29th August 2014 by Patricia Rogers
Being able to compare alternatives is essential when designing an evaluation. This post looks at some alternatives to transcribing interviews.
22nd August 2014 by Nick Herft
We now have nearly 1,200 resources on the BetterEvaluation site – guides, tools, examples and overviews of different methods and processes for evaluation. They have come from user feedback, author recommendations and cool new material found on twitter.
12th August 2014 by Patricia Rogers
Case studies are often used in evaluations – but not always in ways that use their real potential. Recently I had an opportunity to spend some time with the evaluation unit of UNOIOS (United Nations Office of Internal Oversight and Inspection) and some of their UN evaluation colleagues exploring ways to better use case studies in evaluation. Here are five lessons I took away from our time together.
6th August 2014 by Nick Herft
This week we're highlighting non-English content areas, resources, and events. We recognise the importance of information in a range of languages which is why we are:
