Entries Tagged as 'Evaluator Skills'
December 8th, 2013 ·
Have you joined the rubrics revolution? In this podcast we chat with Jane Davidson of Real Evaluation about the use of rubrics in evaluation.
If this piques your interest, we have a slew of resources for you:
Finally, if you've used rubrics in evaluation, please leave us a comment below and let us know how it worked for you.
Until next time,
James and Kylie
Tags: Evaluator Skills
October 6th, 2013 ·
Stephanie Evergreen's new book on data visualization came out yesterday, so we asked her to join us again on the podcast to give us some highlights plus her thoughts about the role and future of data visualization in evaluation.
You can purchase a copy of the book
here.
See you at AEA!
Kylie & James
Tags: Effective Presentation · Evaluator Skills
August 1st, 2013 ·
This week we're thrilled to have Hallie Preskill join us to give a shortened version of her keynote speech at CES2013 in Toronto.
Here are links to some of her current work, plus the Developmental Evaluation graphic she mentioned:
And here is this link to the book she mentioned on Big Data.
Don't forget to leave us your comments below.
James & Kylie
Tags: Miscellaneous · Evaluator Skills
July 4th, 2013 ·
Are you a technical specialist, or a social change agent? Or as Dan Wilson at the Ontario Trillium Foundation says, "Are you part of the Rebel Alliance, or a Jedi Knight?"
In this episode, we discuss the changing role of evaluators based on provocative keynotes from
Hallie Preskill and
John Gargani the CES2013 conference in Toronto.
As promised, here are some of the links we discussed:
Tags: Evaluator Skills · Conferences
June 14th, 2013 ·
In this episode Kylie interviews James and Jane Whynot about their super cool initiative, Evaluation Mentoring Canada. Check out the website, and sign up: http://evaluationmentoringcanada.ca/.
Cheers,
Kylie & James
Kylie and her first mentor, Dr. Anita Myers, at CES2013.
Tags: Capacity-building · Evaluator Skills
April 27th, 2013 ·
Here are some related links:
Cheers,
James & Kylie
Tags: Evaluator Skills
January 30th, 2013 ·
This week we talk about facilitation and it's role as an essential skill for evaluators. Here are some of the resources we mention:
plus....
- we'll be discussing the ARECCI ethics tool in a future episode, but here is the link for now
- a photo of Kylie's charging station for her 12 offline mobile data collection tablets.
All for now,
Kylie & James
Tags: Evaluator Skills
January 10th, 2013 ·
Today we chat with evaluator Ann K. Emery about her recent AEA365 blog post for on "10 Things You Didn't Learn in School".
Apologies up front for the poor sound quality in this particular episode while Kylie Skypes-in from Africa, and for her rambling after a hard day at work and several glasses of wine later.
The management blog that Ann mentions is Ask a Manager.
And here is John Gargani's blog post on jargon.
Enjoy,
Kylie & James
Tags: Evaluator Skills
