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- 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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Preparation for AEA workshop: Logic Models – Beyond the Traditional View: Metrics, Methods, Expected and Unexpected Change
Place for participants to state preferences about workshop content, to let others offer an opinion about content for a workshop like this, and for participants to get to know each other. Continue reading
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Ideology in evaluation. Help designing devising a scenario for AEA 2011
We have been musing about whether evaluation as practiced by the members of AEA is framed within too narrow range of political and social ideologies. Continue reading
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Evaluating the relationship between development and democracy. Comments sought on draft of a presentation
Evaluating the relationship between development and democracy. Comments sought on draft of a presentation Continue reading
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Is it useful to think of “fidelity” in terms of “attractors?”
I have been toying with an idea about thinking of “fidelity” in terms of “attractors” as they are cast in complex adaptive systems (CAS). Continue reading
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Surprise in Evaluation: Values and Valuing as Expressed in Political Ideology, Program Theory, Metrics, and Methodology (AEA 2011 – Think Tank Proposal)
Submitted by Jonny Morell Joanne Farley Tarek Azzam Abstract: How does political ideology affect program theories, methodologies, and metrics? Participants will be randomly assigned to groups, and asked to sketch an evaluation based on one of three positions. 1) Government … Continue reading
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Miscellaneous thoughts on complexity in Evaluation
How do concepts of “complexity” play in Evaluation? Continue reading
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AEA Session 2011 Development of a session on how ideology affects evaluation design
A discussion space for people interested in a session at AEA 2011 on how political ideology affects evaluation design. Continue reading
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Empirical test of Jonny’s beliefs about evaluation surprise
Technical section of proposal to the National Science Foundation Continue reading
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Unexpected program outcomes as a function of the ideologies driving an evaluation – Some questions for the AEA
I want to spark a discussion of what evaluation might look like if it were practiced by people who were working from different ideological frameworks. Continue reading
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Looking for opinions about content — AEA workshop: Logic Models – Beyond the Traditional View: Metrics, Methods, Expected and Unexpected Change
The range of material we can cover during the workshop is much broader than time will allow. Please look through the slides (see attachment) and post your suggestions for priorities. Continue reading
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