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Dec
15
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In April 2015, this NEO Shop Talk post introduced you to something called a “Tearless Logic Model” that was developed by a group of community psychologists at Wichita State University and published in the Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice. I am here to report that I have used this, and it is true. It… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, Logic Models, Participatory Evaluation, Practical Evaluation, Regional Interest
Nov
20
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As you already know, the whole NEO team attended the Evaluation 2017 conference last week. I learned enough to fill up quite a few blog posts. Today’s is about some free tools I found out about that can help communities get comfortable working with data. I went to a presentation by the Engagement Lab at Emerson… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Participatory Evaluation, Practical Evaluation
Nov
13
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The whole NEO team attended AEA’s Evaluation 2017 conference last week. I am still processing a lot of what I’ve learned from the conference, and hope to write in more detail about them in the upcoming months. Until then, here are some of my highlights: Workshops I attended the two-day Eval 101 workshop by Donna… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, Data Visualization, Practical Evaluation
Oct
06
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Our organization has a culture of evaluation. Oooh, doesn’t that sound impressive? In fact, I confess to using that term, culture of evaluation, in describing the NNLM Evaluation Office’s mission. However, if someone ever asked me to explain concretely what a culture of evaluation actually looks like, it would have taken some fast Googling, er,… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, Practical Evaluation
Sep
29
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This past Wednesday Karen and Cindy held a logic model workshop, which included crafting outcomes, for NNLM staff. Most people probably did not know that it was the first time I worked with a logic model! Here are a few of my takeaways about logic models and writing outcomes: You don’t have to come up… Read More »
Posted in: Logic Models, Practical Evaluation