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Reflections from #AZENet19

Jun 5th, 2019
A few weeks after the 2019 Annual Arizona Evaluation Network Conference, I felt inclined to reflect on my experience. This year’s theme, Refocusing on the Fundamentals, served as a call to get back to the roots of evaluation practice. This year’s conference really reminded me that we should never become too complacent with our skills … more »
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Overlapping Column Charts: A Quick Actual v. Goal Comparison

Apr 17th, 2019
Hello there! I’m writing you as a follow up to a workshop I recently facilitated with Nicole Huggett, MSW, for the Arizona Evaluation Network in Phoenix. A big focus of our time together was spent on covering visualization options for comparing goals and pre-post results. One of the popular charts we discussed were overlapping column … more »
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Research on Evaluation: It Takes a Village (The Solution)

Apr 9th, 2018
Our first post lamented the poor response rates in research on evaluation. There are many reasons for these poor response rates, but there are also many things that we can do to improve response rates and subsequently improve the state of research on evaluation. How can evaluators improve response rates? Coryn et. al (2016) suggests … more »
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Research on Evaluation: It Takes a Village (The Problem)

Apr 3rd, 2018
  Response rates from evaluators are poor. Despite research suggesting that AEA members consider research on evaluation as important, response rates for research on evaluation studies are often only between 10-30%.1 As evaluators ourselves, we understand how busy we can be. However, we believe that evaluators should spend more time contributing to these studies. These … more »
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