Evaluation as a Discipline and a Profession

Four facets of AEA. Four questions. No answers provided.

AEA’s Potential to Serve the Public Good

Evaluation as Social Technology

Part 1 of a 3 Part Series on how to Make AEA, and Evaluation, Relevant in the Future: What is Diversity?

Part 2 of a 3 Part Series on how to Make AEA, and Evaluation, Relevant in the Future: AEA as an Evolving Organism

Part 3 of a 3 Part Series on how to Make AEA, and Evaluation, Relevant in the Future: Evolution, Diversity and Change from the Middle

Ideological diversity in Evaluation. We don’t have it, and we do need it

Using an evolutionary biology view to connect the intellectual development of evaluation and the development of the evaluation community

Ideology in evaluation. Help designing devising a scenario for AEA 2011

Surprise in Evaluation: Values and Valuing as Expressed in Political Ideology, Program Theory, Metrics, and Methodology (AEA 2011 – Think Tank Proposal)

AEA Session 2011 Development of a session on how ideology affects evaluation design

Unexpected program outcomes as a function of the ideologies driving an evaluation – Some questions for the AEA

Eat dessert first. Life is uncertain.
Good advice. True observation.

Any yet, we must soldier on, trying to predict what will happen and to explain why things work out as they do. My professional life has grappled with prediction and explanation through the lens of program evaluation. I have come to appreciate how much, and how little, evaluation can tell us. Sometimes it is “much”. Sometime is “little”. Sometimes it is “much” and “little” at the same time. This blog expresses my engagement with what evaluation can do, what it cannot do, what it should do, and what it should not do. About the graphic.

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