**8 min read** “Are modernity’s blueprints for evaluation theory and practice exhausted?” Only now and again one finds provocative questions and insights during an evaluation conference keynote. A keynote that is Innovative. Thought-provoking. Visionary. In 2018, renowned evaluation …
**2 min read** We live in an era of ‘big data’ and ‘big information’. We work in an increasingly quantified world devoid of the nuance that qualitative information provides. We also live in an era of ‘scanning’. We …
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**2 min read** A while ago Michael Quinn Patton urged us in one of our Young and Emerging Evaluator posts to share the 10 evaluation classics that inspire us most. And now we have the great phenomenon on …
** 6 min read ** I have long thought that evaluators don’t define ‘success’ in meaningful ways. Now highly respected economist Matt Andrews has just released a very useful working paper that confirms how much more carefully we …
**3 min read** What is the responsibility of evaluators in the era in which we live today? This is one of the issues I raised in my keynote presentation at the UK Evaluation Society earlier this year, and …
**3 min read** Have you ever worked with a Research Maturity Model? Or an Evaluation Maturity Model? A ‘maturity model’ with well-designed sets of evaluative rubrics can be very useful in framing the level of maturity of almost …
**5 min read.** “Aid projects might yield satisfying micro-results, but they generally do little to change the systems that produce the problems in the first place.” On 16 July 2018 fifteen prominent economists, including three Nobel winners, wrote …
Many years ago, at the beginning of my evaluation career, I read about ‘dialogue evaluation’. It is a simple mechanism that we can use more frequently to mediate between an independent evaluation and self-evaluation – two distinct approaches …