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Mar
24
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Kalyna Durbak, the NEO’s novice evaluator, recently posted the five things she learned about evaluation since joining our staff. I thought I would steal, er, borrow Kalyna’s “five things” topic and write about the most important lessons I’ve learned after 25+ -years in the evaluation field. My first experience with program evaluation was in… Read More »
Posted in: Blog
Mar
17
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Thanks to Jessi Van Der Volgen and Molly Knapp at the NNLM Training Office for allowing us to feature their assessment project and for providing the images in this post. Are you tired of bars? I don’t mean the kind of bars where you celebrate and socialize. I mean the kind used in data visualization. My evidence-free… Read More »
Posted in: Data Visualization
Mar
10
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Since joining the NEO in October, I have learned a lot about the world of evaluation. Here are 5 things that have made me rethink how I approach evaluation, program planning, and overall life. #1: Anyone can do evaluation Think about a project that you are working on at work. Now take out your favorite… Read More »
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Mar
06
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People in my social media circles have been talking lately about bias in questionnaires. There are biased questionnaires. Some of them are biased by accident and some are on purpose. Some are biased in the questions and some are biased in other ways, such as the selection of the people who are asked to complete… Read More »
Posted in: Questionnaires and Surveys
Feb
24
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Logic models just may be the duct tape of the evaluation world. A logic model’s usefulness extends well beyond initial project planning. (If you aren’t familiar with logic models, here’s a fun introduction.) Today’s post starts a new NEO Shop Talk series to take our readers beyond Logic Models 101. We call this series Logic… Read More »
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