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Nov 27 2018

Bottom-Up Peace: Everyday Peace Indicators Project

Hi everyone! I hope you are all doing well. I wanted to take a moment to share something I created in collaboration with The Everyday Peace Indicators Project (EPI). EPI creates everyday indicators of difficult-to-measure concepts such as peace, reconciliation, governance and violent extremism. The project is a cooperative, bottom-up endeavor. It takes, as a starting point, the belief that local communities are best placed to conduct research on their own communities because they understand their context best. The project operates via local NGOs; it sources the indicators from the communities themselves, and helps communities identify priorities, common goals, and learn from research findings about the indicators they identified. Take a look at the visuals and animation (my first ever!) below that I created to describe this approach to measuring difficult-to-measure concepts. As always, I welcome your thoughts and feedback. Thank you!

Nov 26 2018

Adventures in Teaching: Taking Advantage of Peer Review

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday this week, I cancelled our Monday morning class. However, this would mean 3 weeks of not meeting in class given two Monday holidays this year, so I made the class an online one instead. I decided to have students take the outlines for their final papers, write up one paragraph …

Nov 19 2018

Questions, Methods, and Budget, oh my!

Most evaluators are quick to say that the evaluation questions drive the methods. I think most evaluators would agree with this statement. However, what do you do about that pesky budget? How does the budget play a role in determining the questions and/or methods? Ideally, we’d have an unlimited budget and would always use the …

Oct 31 2018

Tips for Getting the Most Out of #Eval18

During our latest #EvalTwitter chat, I asked people to write up tips for attendees of the AEA Evaluation Conference (hashtag #Eval18). I got some great responses and wanted to collect them here to share easily with others. First, I would like to mention that @DonnaPodems created a great LinkedIn post with tips for evaluators. Next …

Oct 29 2018

Using R for Immediate Reporting in Evaluation

I am pretty fortunate that one of the companies I work for is incredibly interested in shifting the organization towards R. One of those shifts was my boss asking, “Can we recreate this report in R? Can we create the report so that it can be automated back to the client immediately after asession?” The …

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