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  • Rapid evaluation

    Eleanor Williams is the Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Research Evidence at the Victorian Department of Health. In this role, she leads the department's evaluation and research strategy. 
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  • Week 35: What is Visionary Evaluation?

    Today we start a series on "visionary evaluation" - the theme of the 2014 American Evaluation Association conference in October.
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  • Week 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?
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  • Week 37: Why is equity so important in evaluation?

    This is #3 in our series on visionary evaluation.  
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  • Developmental evaluation

    This webpage from Tamarack Community provides links to audio files of an interview between Mark Cabaj and Michael Patton in which they discuss the topic of development evaluation.
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  • Developmental evaluation: Applying complexity concepts to enhance innovation & use

    In this book, Michael Quinn Patton describes the process of conducting developmental evaluations for ongoing program development.
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  • Real-time evaluation (Working paper #4)

    Real-time evaluation (RTE) has been practised and documented over the past 20 years, initially in humanitarian projects.
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  • Rapid evaluation

    Rapid Evaluation is an approach designed to quickly and systematically conduct an evaluation when time or resources are limited.
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  • Why do we need more real-time evaluation?

    We’re currently going through a global period of rapid change and adaption, due in large part to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our lives and work.
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  • A developmental evaluation primer

    This primer guide from The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation outlines the basic principles of Developmental Evaluation and provides a range of tools to support its implementation.
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