Doing something is a good start. But it’s not enough. As evaluators we deal with all sorts of programs and activities that were launched out of a need to do something. Programs that keep on doing something, or something else, or something ineffective, or something effective, or something counterproductive, or something amazing, or nothing. And […]
DataViz for Anti-Racism [Free Course]
No new cartoons or lengthy blog post this week. Instead I launched a course. It only has one module now, but I have plans for more. And did I mention it was free? What you will learn Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James […]
Evaluation as Protest
Ahmaud Arbery. Sean Reed. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. George Floyd. When does this racial terror end? For the past three months, our communities have been inundated with painful stories and images of Black people targeted, harassed, arrested, and killed by police and racist vigilantes. As Black people all across the country grapple with the aftermath of […]
So what is evaluation anyway?
Post originally published as a collection of 13 evaluation cartoons on March 25, 2014. Updated with way more context on May 27, 2020. When you search “What is Evaluation?” on Google, you get the kinds of responses you might expect. The Wikipedia page…if a topic is important enough it will have a Wikipedia page. And […]
Evaluation Blogs
So I decided to create what I hope will eventually become an ultimate list of evaluation blogs. Not just a boring bullet point list, but one that gives you a sense of the human being on the other side of the internet. This post is designed to grow. Meaning I plan to come back and […]
Evaluation and COVID-19
Social media is not a monologue. It’s a collection of voices seen (or unseen) based almost entirely on who you do or do not follow. But the world we see is based, as it always has been, on the people that surround us. Historically this has been primarily determined by where we live, and the […]