Episodes

Sunday Dec 08, 2013
Evaluation Rubrics with E. Jane Davidson
Sunday Dec 08, 2013
Sunday Dec 08, 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.
- slides from the AEA 2013 conference on rubrics:
- Jane's Evaluation Rubrics: What, Why, and How
- Kate McKegg's The Value of Rubrics in Messy Non-Profit Evaluation Contexts
- Better Evaluation and Judy Oakden have a new document on rubrics, Evaluation Rubrics: How to Ensure Clear and Transparent Assessment That Respects Diverse Lines of Evidence
- You can find a number of real-life rubrics from the New Zealand Ministry of Education here
- Jane's blog post on Evaluation specific methodologies: The methodologies that are specific to evaluation
- one of Kylie's favourite articles is Jane's Unlearning Some of Our Social Scientist Habits
- Jane also has a great little e-book, Actionable Evaluation Basics: Getting Succinct Answers to the Most Important Questions, check it out! (Actionable Evaluation is also available in print here.)

Sunday Oct 06, 2013
Presenting Data Effectively: An Interview with Stephanie Evergreen
Sunday Oct 06, 2013
Sunday Oct 06, 2013


Thursday Aug 01, 2013
Game Changers for Evaluation: A Chat with Hallie Preskill
Thursday Aug 01, 2013
Thursday Aug 01, 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.
- Evaluating Social Innovation
- Breakthroughs in Shared Measurement
- Buiding Evaluation Capacity
- Reframing Evaluation Through Appreciative Inquiry
- Developmental Evaluation graphic (full article)


Thursday Jul 04, 2013
The Changing Role of Evaluators: Reflections from the CES2103 Conference
Thursday Jul 04, 2013
Thursday Jul 04, 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?"
- Jane Davidson's ebook, Actionable Evaluation Basics: Getting succinct answers to the most important questions
- Stephanie Evergreen's webinars and book
- SROI Canada


John Gargani's Evaluator Doll John Gargani's slide on evaluators as social change agents.


Jane Davidson discovers Tim Horton's. Anita Myers using data clicker at final plenary.
Don't forget to tell us your likes and dislikes!
James & Kylie

Friday Jun 14, 2013
The Launch of the Evaluation Mentoring Canada Initiative
Friday Jun 14, 2013
Friday Jun 14, 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.

Saturday Apr 27, 2013
The CES Evaluator Competencies: A Chat With Heather Buchanan
Saturday Apr 27, 2013
Saturday Apr 27, 2013

Wednesday Jan 30, 2013
'Soft' Skills for Evaluators: Facilitation and More
Wednesday Jan 30, 2013
Wednesday Jan 30, 2013
- book by Sam Kaner
- International Association of Facilitators
- Government of Canada's Centre for Intercultural Learning
- If you have buckets of money and want a skilled instructor, check out this offering at Hollyhock here. This one is definitely on my To Do list one year.
- 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.


Thursday Jan 10, 2013
10 Things You Didn't Learn in Evaluator School
Thursday Jan 10, 2013
Thursday Jan 10, 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