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Filter search resultsWeek 11: BetterEvaluation at AfrEA 2014
BetterEvaluation was privileged to sponsor the Methodological Innovation stream at the African Evaluation Association (AfREA) conference from 3-7 March. What did we learn?BlogWeek 12: Evaluation innovation in transparency and accountability
Innovation is a relative concept. It is about new practice … for the topic and person or group in question.BlogWeek 13: Producing engaging and accessible evaluation reports
This week we start the first in an ongoing series of Real-Time Evaluation Queries, where BetterEvaluation members ask for advice and assistance with something they are working on, together we suggest some strategies and useful resources - aBlogWeek 14: New to evaluation? Here's what you need to read
Alan Mountain supports BetterEvaluation while he completes his Masters of International Development at RMIT University.BlogWeek 15: Fitting reporting methods to evaluation findings – and audiences
This week we're sharing some ideas from Rakesh Mohan on ways of making evaluation reports more interesting.BlogWeek 16: Infographics to make your evaluation results go viral
Continuing our season of blogs on presenting evaluation findings in ways that will get them read (and hopefully used), Joitske Hulsebosch, an independent consultant, contributes her ideas on how to present your findings in the forBlogWeek 17: A Q&A on working with children in evaluation
In February, BetterEvaluation hosted a webinar on working with children in evaluation.BlogWeek 18: is there a "right" approach to establishing causation in advocacy evaluation?
We’ve talked before on tBlogWeek 19: Ways of framing the difference between research and evaluation
One of the challenges of working in evaluation is that important terms (like ‘evaluation’, ‘impact’, ‘indicators’, ‘monitoring’ and so on ) are defined and used in very different ways by different people.BlogSemana 19: Formas de descrever a diferença entre pesquisa e avaliação
Um dos desafios em trabalhar em avaliação é que importante termos (como "avaliação", "impacto", "indicadores", "monitoramento" e assim por diante) são definidos e usados de maneiras muito diferentes, porBlogWeek 20: A língua dominante em avaliação é o inglês?
Infelizmente acredito que sim.BlogWeek 21: Know your measures - picking outcomes to monitor policy change
Simon Hearn continues BetterEvaluation’s theme on the monitoring and evaluation of policy change by suggesting a set of measures to help those struggling to monitor the slippery area of policy influence and advocacy.BlogWeek 23: Evaluation of anti-corruption reforms and programmes – don’t give up before you even try!
Our blogger this week is Jesper Johnsøn, Senior Advisor to the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre.BlogWeek 22: Using evaluation in programme design – a funder’s perspective
Stephen Porter is Results and Evaluation Advisor for the Education and Partnerships team at DFID.BlogWeek 20: Is English the dominant language for evaluation?
Unfortunately I believe so. Last year I met a group of Brazilian evaluators in a conference, and learned from them the growing demand for good evaluation studies in Brazil, but also the need for more capacity buildinBlogWeek 29: Evaluation design and unintended consequences or, from firefighting to systematic action
This week’s blog is from Jonny Morell, editor of Evaluation and Program Planning and author ofBlogWeek 30: Presenting data effectively
Last week I was lucky enough to be involved in a series of workshops by Stephanie Evergreen on presenting data effectively.BlogWeek 32: Better use of case studies in evaluation
Case studies are often used in evaluations – but not always in ways that use their real potential.BlogWeek 35: What is Visionary Evaluation?
Today we start a series on "visionary evaluation" - the theme of the 2014 American Evaluation Association conference in October.BlogWeek 34: Alternatives to transcribing interviews
Being able to compare alternatives is essential when designing an evaluation.BlogWeek 36: Systems thinking
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?BlogWeek 37: Why is equity so important in evaluation?
This is #3 in our series on visionary evaluation.BlogWeek 38: Addressing sustainability in evaluation
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 sustaBlogWeek 41: Celebrating two years since going live!
Two years ago, during the European Evaluation Society conference in Helsinki, the BetterEvaluation.org website went live for public access.BlogWeek 40: Visionary Evaluation AEA 2014 song
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 coBlogWeek 42: Dot plots, bullet charts, slopegraphs and more. We've updated our visualise data section!
Following up from Stephanie Evergreen's seminar on Presenting data effectivelyBlogWeek 44: Anecdote as epithet - Rumination #1 from qualitative research and evaluation methods
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.BlogWeek 43: Evaluating sustainability
Meeting sustainability goals is one of the most important and urgent challenges for humanity yet for many of us, thinking about sustainability in evaluation means assessing the extent to which the benefits of a project, programme or policyBlogWeek 45: Tracking support among U.S. members of congress
Scorecards are used in many different types of evaluation, and can have influence through informing decisions and by making performance visible.BlogWeek 47: Rumination #3: Fools' gold: the widely touted methodological "gold standard" is neither golden nor a standard
This week's post is an abbreviated version of a "rumination" from theBlogWeek 48: The value iceberg
Efforts to measure, quantify and compare the 'value' of different interventions have become popular as a way for social change organisations to decide how to use their time and money.BlogWeek 49: The 1st international conference on realist approaches to evaluation: my ‘realist’ take-aways
In this blog, Tiina shares her top three realist ‘take-aways’ from the 1st International Conference on Realist Approaches to Evaluation and reflects on when or how realist evaluation may be most useful.Blog