Evaluation Use and Misuse

Are Policy Makers, Program Designers and Managers Doing a Good Job if they Rely Too Much on Evaluation?

Some Musings on Evaluation Use in the Current Political Context

Invitation to a Conversation Between Program Funders and Program Evaluators: Complex Behavior in Program Design and Evaluation

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.

Evaluation Use and Misuse

Good Reasons Not to Use Data: The Problem of Tactics Outside of Culture

How Much Diverse Intellectual Input Should Be Included When Planning an Evaluation? (Revised)

Second Installment: AEA’s Potential to Serve the Public Good

A Plan for Making Complexity Useful in Evaluation

Evaluation use by people opposed to the program

Are Policy Makers, Program Designers and Managers Doing a Good Job if they Rely Too Much on Evaluation?

Some Musings on Evaluation Use in the Current Political Context

Invitation to a Conversation Between Program Funders and Program Evaluators: Complex Behavior in Program Design and Evaluation

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