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OL-ECB TIG Week: Organizational Learning About Values by Albertina Lopez

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / March 26, 2024

Greetings! I am Dr. Albertina Lopez, director at the Center for Evaluation Innovation where we partner with philanthropy on strategy, learning, and evaluation efforts that intend to further racial equity and social justice. Today I’d like to discuss how organizations can truly learn their values through sharing a valuable framework and lessons we have learned …

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University-Based Centers TIG Week: The Realities of Real-World Evaluation Work in the South: Navigating the Complexities of Evaluation Guiding Principles within a Large University System in the South by Bich Do and Samuel B. Robison

Leave a Comment / University-Based Centers / January 27, 2024

We are Bich Do, Research Associate, and Sam Robison, Associate Director and Associate Professor of Research of the Louisiana State University Social Research and Evaluation Center. In this post, we discuss the challenges of evaluation work in a large university system situated in the Deep South, shedding light on the unique challenges and solutions we’ve encountered while striving to align with the AEA Guiding Principles.

University-Based Centers TIG Week: Working with Students at a University-Based Evaluation and Research Center by Rae Jing Han, Liz Litzler, Erin Carll, Emily Knaphus-Soran, and Daniel Mackin Freeman

Leave a Comment / University-Based Centers / January 27, 2024

Hi! We are Rae Jing Han, Liz Litzler, Erin Carll, Emily Knaphus-Soran, and Daniel Mackin Freeman from the University of Washington Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity. Our center usually employs 6-10 students (graduate and undergraduate) to help us with our evaluation and research projects. We love the energy and perspective students bring, and over time, we have learned a few things about the strengths students bring to our work and some strategies for supporting them in their role.  We have incorporated student voices in quotes.

Transformational Eval Week: Decolonising National Evaluation Systems by Ian Goldman, Candice Morkel, Edoe Dimitrij Agbodjan, and Thokozile Molaiwa

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 8, 2023

We are Ian Goldman (President of the IEAc, Advisor Global Evaluation Initiative), Candice Morkel (IEAc Board member and Director CLEAR Anglophone Africa, Edoe Dimitrij Agbodjan (Director CLEAR Francophone Africa) and Thokozile Molaiwa (Chief Director: Evaluation, Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, South Africa). In today’s post, we build upon a seminar organised by the Academy …

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Decolonization in Evaluation Week: Knowledge asymmetries and struggles for space: Towards a decolonial turn in the evaluation of ‘development’ and ‘conservation’ programmes by Linda Khumalo & Gert Van Hecken

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / October 3, 2023

We are Linda Khumalo and Gert Van Hecken. We collaborate on a project to reimagine M&E from a decolonial perspective. Here we share some lessons learned. Linda is an evaluation practitioner and scholar contributing to the Made in Africa Evaluation (MAE) discourse who sees the challenges of applying a transformative evaluative lens. Gert is an …

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RoE TIG Week: Evaluators’ Values and How They “Show Up” in Evaluation Practice: An Empirical Study by Rebecca Teasdale, Jennifer McNeilly, and María Isabel Ramírez Garzón

Leave a Comment / Research on Evaluation / July 2, 2023

Hello! We are Rebecca Teasdale (University of Illinois Chicago, USA), Jennifer McNeilly (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA), and María Isabel Ramírez Garzón (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia). We are excited to share key takeaways from a research study we recently published with Judit Novak (University of Oslo, Norway) and Jennifer Greene (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) …

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ICCE TIG Week: The Evolution of Evaluation in South Korea by Injae Son and Minji Cho

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / May 19, 2023

Hello, we are Injae Son, a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation (IDPE) program at Western Michigan University, and Minji Cho, a doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University. As South Koreans, we have recently been discussing the origins and practice of evaluation in our home country. Since we are among the few international …

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Environmental Program Evaluation TIG Week: Principles in Practice: Using Mixed Methods Measurements for Principles-focused Evaluation in Agroecosystems Research by Greta Landis

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 10, 2023

Hey everyone! I’m Greta Landis (she / her), an Evaluation Specialist based in Teejop (Madison, Wisconsin) at the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Program Co-Chair of the Environmental Program Evaluation TIG. My work is informed by Dr. Michael Quinn Patton’s ‘principles-focused evaluation’ approach, which provides a set of strategies to develop …

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