Episodes

Sunday Sep 01, 2013
Anyone for a Horse Race?
Sunday Sep 01, 2013
Sunday Sep 01, 2013

- Terminology in evaluation: Approaches, types (purposes), methods, analysis techniques and designs
- Untangling Evaluation Terms – Discussing Evaluation 'Types' With Clients Often More Useful Than Evaluation 'Approaches'

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.

Sunday May 12, 2013
2013 CES Conference Preview
Sunday May 12, 2013
Sunday May 12, 2013
Hi Everyone, This week we've got Dawn Campbell-Borland and Dayna Albert as guests giving us a sneak preview into this year's CES conference in Toronto, June 9 - 12th. This year's theme is "Evaluation Across Boundaries". They have some great workshops, keynotes, and presentations lined up, so have a listen!
For more information about the conference please visit http://cestoronto2013.ca/.
Cheers, Kylie & James

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

Friday Apr 05, 2013
Making the Leap: Evaluation Consulting with Gail Barrington
Friday Apr 05, 2013
Friday Apr 05, 2013
This week we chat with Gail Barrington, Evaluation Consultant and author of Consulting Start up & Management: A Guide for Evaluators & Applied Researchers. Plus, here's a great little AEA365 post about small-sized consulting. Cheers, James & Kylie

Saturday Mar 16, 2013
Oh My God It's March: Dealing with March Madness
Saturday Mar 16, 2013
Saturday Mar 16, 2013
It's March again, and evaluators everywhere are frantically racing to meet multiple deadlines. (In fact, Kylie almost forgot to post this episode herself.) Have a listen to James and Kylie discussing some of their techniques for dealing with March madness.
How do you deal with it? Leave us your comment below.

Saturday Mar 02, 2013
Hey, Where Did My Stats Go?
Saturday Mar 02, 2013
Saturday Mar 02, 2013
Some of us evaluators find ourselves using our stats straight away out of school, and for various reasons some of us don't. In this episode we discuss the different levels of use among evaluators and what is really acceptable in terms of statistical knowledge. Here's the link to Paul D. Ellis' great little e-book, Effect Size Matters. AEA often has eStudy courses on statistics, and here are some other links for online refreshers:
- Rice University's Online Statistics Education: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study
- Johns Hopkins' Introduction to Biostatistics 1
- Coursera/Princeton University's Statistics 1
- UDACITY's Introduction to Statistics

Sunday Feb 17, 2013
Humour and Evaluation
Sunday Feb 17, 2013
Sunday Feb 17, 2013
This week we're pleased to have Chris Lysy, evaluation cartoonist, as our special guest. Chris talks with us about the use of humour in evaluation. To see more of Chris' evaluation funnies visit his website here.
And here's a link to another example of humour in evaluation: Roger Miranda's Eva the Evaluator.