Evaluators frequently say that no one understands what we do. In the words of Jean King: “It is awkward to be a program evaluator. On a personal level, people in social settings rarely seem to grasp the one-sentence summary of…
My husband and I have a house in the Daintree Rainforest: a world heritage listed rainforest in northern Australia. It is glorious, sitting high on a hill overlooking the Coral Sea. It is also, as I said, in a rainforest.…
When people describe the qualities they want in an evaluation, many use words like ‘credible’, ‘robust’, and ‘objective’. On the face of it, this makes sense. The people who need (and want) evaluation are often hoping for hard and fast…
