This blog is my place to muse about evaluation – how theory and practice relate to each other, what it means for evaluation to be “useful”, what “good” evaluation means, and how to do good evaluation. I am interested in surprise – why programs do not behave as expected, why evaluations do not behave as expected, and how good evaluation can be done in the face of uncertainty. It’s the last part that occupies most of my time. The reasons for surprise are well known. How to do good evaluation when surprise rears its ugly head is not so well understood. I see evaluation surprise as fire that pops up unexpectedly. My desire is to help develop a community of interest on the topic of moving away from firefighting to anticipatory, systematic planning.
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- About
- Evaluation as Social Technology
- How to Evaluate a Conference
- Integrating Evaluation and Agent-Based Modeling
- System design: Requirements, complexity, and cost
- Unintended consequences, Development, and Democracy
- Why Do Hospitals Coordinate Activities As They Do? Or: What I Learned From My Hip Surgery
- Workshop: Grappling With the Unexpected From Firefighting to Systematic Action
- Workshop: Logic Models — Beyond the Traditional View
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Recent Posts
- Preparation for AEA workshop: Logic Models – Beyond the Traditional View: Metrics, Methods, Expected and Unexpected Change
- Ideology in evaluation. Help designing devising a scenario for AEA 2011
- Evaluating the relationship between development and democracy. Comments sought on draft of a presentation
- Is it useful to think of “fidelity” in terms of “attractors?”
- Surprise in Evaluation: Values and Valuing as Expressed in Political Ideology, Program Theory, Metrics, and Methodology (AEA 2011 – Think Tank Proposal)
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