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Jul
14
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I wrote a post in May 2016 about a participatory evaluation conducted with a group of public librarians from the Engage for Health program, a statewide collaboration led by the NNLM Middle Atlantic Region (MAR) and the Pennsylvania Library Association (PaLA). This was a community education program, offered by 17 libraries throughout Pennsylvania, which taught community… Read More »
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Jul
07
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Recently on Twitter I found a publication on evaluability assessment of impact evaluation. The tweet stated that an evaluability assessment would save time and money in the long run. That’s good right? Evaluability was a new concept for me, so I read the small publication: Evaluability Assessment for Impact Evaluation: Guidance, Checklists and Decision Support,… Read More »
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Jun
30
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150 million hot dogs. That’s the number of hotdogs that the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council estimates we will eat on the 4th of July. Can you imagine that? It’s probably hard to visualize all those hot dogs piled up in your mind. Is that a lot of hot dogs? Hard to tell. What… Read More »
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Jun
21
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Once upon a time, there was an evaluator like any other. She often was called on to present evaluation results of special projects. Sometimes it was at the request of influential stakeholders. Other times, it was for colleagues at professional conferences. Almost always, she got the same audience response. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Then one day, I realized… Read More »
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Jun
09
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What do Oreo cookies have to do with evaluation? In program evaluation, we want to know the extent to which a program is successful. If we’re evaluating an activity we’re doing at our job, we might be trying to figure out if more money should be put towards future iterations of that activity or if it… Read More »
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