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Sep
23
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It’s the fall, also known as the beginning of conference season. It’s a very exciting time if you like evaluation/assessment. If you want to improve your evaluation skills, two great conferences are coming up, back to back. Take a look at some of these highlights and pick one to go to! Oct. 24-29, 2016 Evaluation… Read More »
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Sep
16
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What would you rather look at? Some paragraphs of text and bullet points that explain in a step-by-step fashion your process and outcomes evaluation plans, or a diagram of those plans? For me the answer is easy: a diagram. Diagrams have the advantage of being quickly understandable, interesting to look at, invite participation of the… Read More »
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Sep
09
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I once heard evaluator extraordinaire Michael Patton say that an evaluator could staple an executive summary to a bunch of pages ripped from a phone book and no one would notice. Possibly our readers have developed a fear of drowning in numbers and technical information? (For our younger blog followers, a phone book is that… Read More »
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Sep
02
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Last week we wrote some basic goals and objectives for a proposal about teaching health literacy skills to vampires in Sunnydale. Here’s what the goals and objectives look like, taken from the Executive Summary statement in last week’s post: Goal: The goal of our From Dusk to Dawn project is to improve the health and… Read More »
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Aug
26
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Vocabulary. Jargon. Semantics. Sometimes I think it’s the death of us all. Seriously, it’s really hard to have a conversation about anything when you use the same words in the same context to mean completely different things. Take Goals and Objectives. I can’t tell you how many different ways this has been taught to me. … Read More »
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