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Filter search resultsRQ+ Research Quality Plus. A Holistic Approach to Evaluating Research
This report describes a holistic approach and assessment framework for evaluating 'research' that goes beyond the traditional deliberative means (e.g., peer review) and often used analytics (e.g., bibliometrics).ResourceWISE: Web Interface for Statistics Education
WISE's website organises a large amount of statistics resources available on the web into one central place.ResourceComparative Hypothesis Testing Via Process Tracing
This article by by Ingo Rohlfing argues that the understanding of the doubly decisive test is misleading and that it lumps together the criteria of uniqueness and contradiction.Extract AbstractResourceAction and reflection: a guide for monitoring and evaluating participatory research
This paper from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) was designed to support those involved in participatory research and development projects with monitoring and evaluation stratResourceWeek 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 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 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 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 policyBlogDeveloping a research agenda for impact evaluation
Impact evaluation, like many areas of evaluation, is under-researched. Doing systematic research about evaluation takes considerable resources, and is often constrained by the availability of information about evaluation practice.BlogAssessing the impact of research on policy
The authors of this review analyse various evaluation methods (including ethnographic and quantitative approaches, focus groups, process tracing, and network mapping and analysis) to find out which ones are the most suitable to evaluate theResourceMonitoring the composition and evolution of the research networks of the CGIAR research program on roots, tubers and bananas (RTB)
This Brief provides an example of how Social Network Analysis (SNA) can be used, in the context of agricultural research.Resource