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 know what we think we know?” (as suggested by Michael Patton here).
• Highlight the learning that comes from successful programs and evaluations and also from “failures” or dead ends.