As in the past several years, I’ll be live cartooning this year’s American Evaluation Association Conference. This post will keep getting updated, so make sure you bookmark it and come back and visit over the next few days. Cartooning Evaluation 2015 Webinar Series This year I’m also going to do something a little different. I’m […]
A positive spin on failure according to Simon Hearn
Simon Hearn, one of the team of evaluators who put together the 10 things to know about evaluation infographic I mentioned last week, left me a comment on the post. The comment sparked today’s cartoon which I hope gives failure a bit more of a positive spin. Something we didn’t have space to talk about […]
I still don’t know the source of the RCT Gold Standard Rhetoric, do you?
Today’s cartoon flashback comes from a post I put together early last year on the RCT Gold Standard Rhetoric. I tried, and failed, to find the source of the rhetoric, only a kooky theory about Harry Gold’s Standard (you’ll have to read the comments for that one). We did learn the source of randomista and came […]
ODI shares 10 things to know about evaluation, number 5 is on failures.
Today’s illustration was inspired by an infographic created by the Overseas Development Institute. 5. ‘Failures” are important. Evaluation is sometimes driven by desire to show that a project was successful or worthwhile. Yet evaluations will almost always show mixed results. Understanding and sharing what doesn’t work is just as important as what does.
How Thomas Archibald thinks we can create an intentional Evaluative Thinking learning environment.
Today’s illustration inspired by one part of Tom Archibald’s blog post on Fostering Evaluative Thinking. Create an intentional ET learning environment Display logic models or other theory of change diagrams in the workplace—in meeting rooms, within newsletters, etc. Create public spaces to record and display questions and assumptions. Post inspirational questions, such as, “How do we […]
Defining Outliers – cartoon flashback
Today’s cartoon flashback comes from a post featuring ethics stories contributed by a silent collaborator. I think this was my favorite of the bunch. Defining Outlier Evaluators: “Here are the results from your program.” Client: “Those results aren’t accurate.” Evaluators: “How so?” Client: “The bad results are obviously outliers. You need to remove those people from […]