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American Journal of Evaluation Week: Meet AJE’s Editorial Board by Thomas Archibald

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 12, 2024

My name is Thomas Archibald (Executive Director of the Center for International Research, Education, and Development and Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education at Virginia Tech). As part of my efforts to serve the field of evaluation, I have a handful of roles with evaluation journals, including on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Evaluation (AJE). I’ve experienced the benefits of such roles, and I’m happy to share some related insights with you, regrouped into three themes: (1) serving, (2) learning, and (3) shaping.? But first, what does editorial board service entail?

Capacity, Complexity, and Collaboration to Transform Evaluation by Tom Archibald

1 Comment / Uncategorized / February 2, 2021

Hi, my name is Tom Archibald, Associate Professor at Virginia Tech and board member of the Eastern Evaluation Research Society (EERS). I’ve been thinking a lot about recent calls to transform evaluation. For example, we have: Blue Marble Evaluation’s Transformational Alignment Principle based on the premise of transforming evaluation to evaluate transformation The Equitable Evaluation …

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EERS Week: Adapt!: Lessons for evaluation from the #AdaptDev community by Tom Archibald

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / November 24, 2018

My name is Tom Archibald, Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education at Virginia Tech and Board Member of the Eastern Evaluation Research Society (EERS). In keeping with this week’s reflections on the EERS 2019 conference theme, Adapt! Evaluators in a Changing World, I would like to share some insights and …

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EEE TIG Week: Tom Archibald on Whose Extension Counts?

1 Comment / Extension Education Evaluation / July 17, 2018

EEE TIG Week: Tom Archibald on Whose Extension Counts? Hello, I’m Tom Archibald, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education at Virginia Tech. Debates about what counts as credible evidence in program evaluation and applied social science research have been ongoing for at least 20 years. Rad Resource: …

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Evaluative Thinking as a Way of Doing Business by Guy Sharrock, Tom Archibald and Jane Buckley

1 Comment / Uncategorized / January 22, 2017

Greetings! We’re Guy Sharrock (Catholic Relief Services), Tom Archibald (Virginia Tech), and Jane Buckley (JCBConsulting). Following a much earlier aea365 post dated April 29, 2012, Evaluative Thinking: The ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’ of Evaluation Capacity Building and Evaluation Practice, we’d like to describe what we are learning from our evaluative thinking (ET) work in Ethiopia …

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OL-ECB Week: Natalie Cook and Tom Archibald on ICYMI*: Roundup of Recent Evaluation Capacity Building Research

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / October 1, 2016

(*ICYMI (“in case you missed it”) we present a few summaries of recent ECB literature to help you stay up-to-date on this quickly evolving aspect of evaluation. Hi, we are Natalie Cook (Graduate Research Assistant) and Tom Archibald (Assistant Professor) from the Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education department at Virginia Tech. We both practice and …

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OL-ECB Week: Tom Archibald on Rad Resources for the Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB) Commons

3 Comments / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / October 1, 2016

I’m Tom Archibald, Assistant Professor in the Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education department at Virginia Tech and Chief of Party of the USAID/Education and Research in Agriculture project in Senegal. I’m also Program Co-Chair for the OL-ECB TIG; as Sally Bond mentioned here on aea365 yesterday, as a TIG we are excited to develop an …

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#Eval15 Week: Tom Archibald on The Great Evaluative Thinking Scavenger Hunt at Evaluation 2015

2 Comments / Uncategorized / November 8, 2015

I’m Tom Archibald, Chief of Party of the USAID/Education and Research in Agriculture project in Senegal and Assistant Professor of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education at Virginia Tech. I’ve just arrived in Chicago and am looking forward to another exciting week full of learning, connecting, and fun! Jane Buckley and I are getting ready for …

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OL-ECB Week: Tom Archibald and Guy Sharrock on Integrating Learning by Promoting Evaluative Thinking

1 Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / November 23, 2014

Hi, we are Tom Archibald (Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education at Virginia Tech) and Guy Sharrock (Senior Technical Advisor for Learning with Catholic Relief Services). We believe one way to integrate and sustain learning in an organization is by intentionally promoting “evaluative thinking.” Evaluative thinking (ET) is an …

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Tom Archibald and Jane Buckley on Evaluative Thinking: The ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’ of Evaluation Capacity Building and Evaluation Practice

8 Comments / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building, Uncategorized / March 24, 2012

Hi, we are Tom Archibald and Jane Buckley with the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation. Among other initiatives, we work in partnership with non-formal educators to build evaluation capacity. We have been exploring the idea of evaluative thinking, which we believe is an essential, yet elusive, ingredient in evaluation capacity building (ECB). Below, we …

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