Kirk Knestis here, Eastern Evaluation Research Society (EERS) President-elect, now with Inciter (nee Carson Research Consulting) in Baltimore. As you’ve heard from other EERS Board members, our upcoming conference theme is Adapt! Evaluators in a Changing World. It’s increasingly clear that some powerful changes we face are in the market for evaluation services. It seems …
Kirk Knestis (Hezel Associates CEO) here again with more thoughts about ways logic models can inform an evaluator’s work and potentially benefit the program managers and innovation developers with whom we work. One area where I think our contributions may often be underutilized is that of sustainability of the evaluand programs or innovations we study. …
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Kirk Knestis at Hezel Associates back with the promised “additional post” about logic models, this time challenging the orthodoxy of including “outputs” in such representations. Irrespective of the style of model used to illustrate the theory behind a program or other innovation, it’s been my experience that inclusion of “outputs” can create confusion, often decreasing …
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Kirk Knestis, CEO of Hezel Associates and huge logic model fan, back on aea365 to share what I think are useful tweaks to a common logic modeling approach. I use these “Conditional Logic Models” to avoid traps common when evaluators work with clients to illustrate the theory of action of a program or innovation being …
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Hello! I’m Kirk Knestis, CEO of Hezel Associates. The US Office for Human Research Projections defines “research” as any “systematic investigation, including research development, testing and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge.” (Emphasis mine.) We often get wrapped up in narrow distinctions like populations but I’m increasingly of the opinion that the …
Greetings, evaluation professionals! Kirk Knestis, CEO of Hezel Associates, back this time as guest curator of an AEA365 week revisiting challenges associated with untangling purposes and methods, between evaluation and research and development (R&D) of education innovations. While this question is being worked out in other substantive areas as well, we deal with it almost …
Kirk Knestis, here, CEO of Hezel Associates and EERS Communication Chair. My colleagues are very good at researching education innovations and evaluating programs. We serve as RESEARCH PARTNER or EXTERNAL EVALUATOR for research and development (or R&D) projects across a variety of programs, many funded by agencies like the National Science Foundation. Lesson Learned – …
Kirk Knestis, CEO of Hezel Associates, back again, following up on a previous post about how evaluators’ work in STEM education settings is being influenced by the Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development introduced by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Department of Education. Hezel Associates studies education innovations so regularly supports organizations …
Kirk Knestis, here, CEO of Hezel Associates—a research and evaluation firm specializing in education innovations. Like many of you, I’ve participated in “evaluation versus research” conversations. That distinction is certainly interesting, but our work in studying science, technology, engineering, and math education (STEM) leaves me more intrigued with what I call the “NSF Conundrum”—confusion among …
Kirk Knestis on Innovation Research and Development (R&D) vs. Program Evaluation Read More »
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