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Making Friends with the Theory of Change

Posted by on July 21st, 2017 0 comments

If you read articles about evaluation sooner or later you will read that your evaluation plan needs to have a good Theory of Change (for example, it’s part of “evaluability assessment” that I wrote about on July 7, 2017). This has concerned me because I assumed there were probably a lot of theories of change… Read More »

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Jul

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Elegantly Simple Evaluation: The Engage for Health Pre/Post Assessment

Posted by on July 14th, 2017 0 comments

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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What in Tarnation is Evaluability Assessment and Why Should We Care?

Posted by on July 7th, 2017 0 comments

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

Posted by on June 30th, 2017 0 comments

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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A Cinderella Story about Evaluation Presentations

Posted by on June 21st, 2017 0 comments

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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