Genuine Evaluation: Great leaders think evaluatively
Originally posted at Genuine Evaluation photo by karigee on Flickr “Great leaders think strategically.” So opens a March 2012 article from Forbes magazine entitled How to Develop 5 Critical Thinking...
View ArticleEvaluative Organization: Evaluative vs. Learning Organization
Originally posted at Evaluative Organization Attempts to distinguish between an evaluative organization and a learning organization are in their infancy today. The tendency for evaluation scholars to...
View ArticleEvaluative Organization: Organizational Evaluation Maturity Model
Originally posted at Evaluative Organization In 2007, I began to explore the types of evaluation performed in organizations and how evaluation was advanced within organizations. I expanded on Scriven’s...
View ArticleEvaluative Organization: The Evaluability Assessment
Originally posted at Evaluative Organization Evaluability assessment is the determination of the appropriateness of conducting an evaluation. It is used to determine if the evaluand is “ready” to be...
View ArticleEvaluspheric Perceptions: Thinking About Evaluative Thinking…in my own backyard!
Originally posted at Evaluspheric Perceptions Confucius said: Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous. I have been thinking about evaluative thinking. And...
View ArticleEvaluative Organization: Values and Organizational Evaluation
Originally posted at Evaluative Organization Values, valuing, and value sources are frequently discussed in the evaluation literature and at evaluation conferences suggesting that even within the...
View ArticleEvaluspheric Perceptions: Paradox Redux: A Pleasant Surprise
Originally posted at Evaluspheric Perceptions A few weeks ago, I wrote Exploring the Public Education Paradox – Evaluation and Public Education (response to Jamie Clearfield). Soon after bemoaning the...
View ArticleEvaluative Organization: Using Product Evaluation to Improve Marketing ROI
Originally posted at Evaluative Organization The significant amount of money and effort invested in advertising programs by for-profit and nonprofit organizations provides a strong incentive for...
View ArticleEvaluative Organization: The Dark Side of Checklists
Originally posted at Evaluative Organization A checklist is a mnemonic device that comprises a list of activities, items, and criteria used to perform a certain task. When used in evaluation, criteria...
View ArticleEvaluative Organization: Advancing Serious Evaluation in Organizations
Originally posted at Evaluative Organization Evaluation is broadly defined as a systematic process to determine the merit, worth, or significance of something. I use the term “serious evaluation” to...
View ArticleEvaluative Organization: Soft Core Evaluation, Hard Core Results
Originally posted at Evaluative Organization Selecting an evaluation method that addresses organizational needs while being recognized by decision-makers as a value-added activity requires serious...
View ArticleEvaluative Organization: Criteria of Merit and the OEC Checklist
Originally posted at Evaluative Organization The logic of evaluation includes three primary elements: Performance standards, performance criteria, and the synthesis of these elements to arrive at an...
View ArticleEvaluative Organization: Assessing Market Opportunities Using a Checklist...
Originally posted at Evaluative Organization For most organizations, sustainability requires organizational growth. Without continuous internal development and external stimuli, organizational atrophy...
View ArticleEvaluative Organization: Goals and Organizational Performance
Originally posted at Evaluative Organization It’s Q4. The final quarter of 2013 when we enter that hallowed period in organizational life eloquently referred to as “strategic planning.” It is a time...
View Articlefree-range evaluation: On the origins of this blog
Originally posted at free-range evaluation After returning home from AEA 2013 in Washington, D.C. (the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association), I decided to try to start blogging. I...
View ArticleEvaluative Organization: Evaluation and the Organization
Originally posted at Evaluative Organization Evaluation is the systematic determination of the merit, worth, or significance of something. That something, referred to as the evaluand, has traditionally...
View Articlefree-range evaluation: Evaluative Thinking Lit Review
Originally posted at free-range evaluation As Ann Emery’s comment suggests, evaluative thinking (ET) is an important part of the work that many of us do, and we know it is mentioned in the evaluation...
View Articleactionable data: Book Review: Actionable Evaluation Basics by E. Jane Davidson
Originally posted at actionable data I am pleased to share my reflections on a new-ish text by E. Jane Davidson, PhD, titled Actionable Evaluation Basics: Getting succinct answers to the most important...
View ArticleEvaluative Organization: Value Claims from Personal to Essential
Originally posted at Evaluative Organization Four major types of value claims are found in evaluation: (i) preference claims, (ii) market-based claims, (iii) contextual claims, and (iv) essentially...
View ArticleEvaluative Organization: Performance Management and Evaluation
Originally posted at Evaluative Organization Although performance measurement and evaluation share several common elements (e.g., identification of metrics and measures, data collection, data analysis,...
View ArticleEvaluative Organization: Mindfulness as a Criterion for Evaluating Organizations
Originally posted at Evaluative Organization Several years ago I created the Organizational Effectiveness Checklist (OEC). The evaluative checklist includes 12 general criteria defining the...
View ArticleEvaluative Organization: Banning Best Practices for Good
Originally posted at Evaluative Organization Best practices are highly seductive in nearly every setting – from business to academia to sports. Many believe that if they can just find the magic formula...
View ArticleGenuine Evaluation: Anecdata
Originally posted at Genuine Evaluation Posted by: Jane Davidson Looking for a new buzzword to toss into the conversation next time you are socializing with your favorite evaluators or clients? How...
View Articlefreshspectrum: Michael Quinn Patton’s Evaluation Flash Cards 5 Cartoons
Originally posted at freshspectrum Today’s cartoon set is inspired by Evaluation Flash Cards developed by Michael Quinn Patton for the Otto Bremer Foundation. More specifically, they are based off of...
View Articlefree-range evaluation: Fostering Evaluative Thinking (part 1)
Originally posted at free-range evaluation Linda Keuntje recently launched an excellent discussion on LinkedIn, in the group, Monitoring & Evaluation Professionals, with the question: “Does anyone...
View ArticleE-Valuation: learning to be an evaluator ~ many ways, many contexts
Originally posted at E-Valuation For many of us we naturally think about learning to do evaluation within the context of degree programs, professional development workshops, and sometimes on the job...
View Articlefree-range evaluation: Fostering Evaluative Thinking (part 2)
Originally posted at free-range evaluation Many months ago, I promised more details on how my colleagues and I have been working to promote evaluative thinking. Now, inspired by an excellent Stanford...
View ArticleEvaluation is an Everyday Activity: Patriotism
Originally posted at Evaluation is an Everyday Activity Erma Bombeck said “You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4th not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers, who...
View ArticleEvaluation is an Everyday Activity: Thinking
Originally posted at Evaluation is an Everyday Activity Thinking. We do it all the time (hopefully). It is crucial to making even the smallest decisions (what to wear, what to eat), and bigger...
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