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  • Enhancing evaluation use: Insights from internal evaluation units

    This book, co-edited by Marlène Läubli Loud and John Mayne, offers invaluable insights from real evaluators who share strategies they have adopted through their own experiences in evaluation.
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  • If a picture paints a thousand words: The use of rich pictures in evaluation

    In this e-book, Judy Oakden discusses the use of Rich Pictures in evaluation. In particular, she addresses why (and when) you should use rich pictures, and answers some of the common questions around the use of rich pictures.
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  • Transcribe

    Transcribe is a very useful tool if you need to transcribe a small amount of data and don't have access to some of the more professional, downloadable transcription software packages.
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  • Week 34: Alternatives to transcribing interviews

    Being able to compare alternatives is essential when designing an evaluation.
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  • Evaluative thinking

    This set of webpages and video from the Department of Education in New South Wales, Australia, provides background information on evaluative thinking and its use.
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  • The core of evaluation: Evaluative thinking

    This AEA365 blog by Tom Grayson provides a list of quotes from notable evaluation colleagues about the importance of evaluative thinking.
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  • Evaluative thinking: SAMEA webinar

    In this webinar on evaluative thinking, Thomas Schwandt explores two perspectives on the topic.
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  • Soft systems methodology: a thirty year retrospective

    Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) can be used to gain understanding of complex relationship drive situations and their contexts.
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  • Interviews

    Interviews are conversations between an investigator (interviewer) and a respondent (‘interviewees’, ‘informants’ or ‘sources’) in which questions are asked in order to obtain information.
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  • In-depth interviews

    An in-depth interview is a type of interview with an individual that aims to collect detailed information beyond initial and surface-level answers.
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