EvaluLand
The Landscape of Evaluation
Displaying items 1-10 of 48 in total of EvaluLand with the tag "evaluation".
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49: Advocacy Evaluation with Robin Lin Miller
July 8th, 2025 | 1 hr 2 mins
advocacy evaluation, aids, evaluation, hiv, lgbtq evaluation
I chat with Robin Lin Miller about the book she wrote with George Ayala, "Breaking Barriers: Sexual and Gender Minority-Led Advocacy to End AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean." We discuss MPact, Project ACT, and the evaluation of the advocacy initiatives.
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48: The Garden of Evaluation Approaches
April 22nd, 2025 | 1 hr 20 mins
evaluation, evaluation theory
In this episode, I chat with the authors of The Garden of Evaluation Approaches about their innovative and helpful framework for thinking about evaluation theory and approaches. They each share their personal journeys into evaluation as well as into this work they have been collaborating on for years. We also discuss evaluation theory more broadly, including how to make it more accessible to new and emerging evaluators.
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47: Jennifer Villalobos
March 25th, 2025 | 56 mins 18 secs
evaluation, evaluation career, evaluator education, scholar-practitioner
In this week’s episode, I talk with Dr. Jennifer Villalobos about evaluator education, the scholar-practitioner model, evaluation careers, and how the current administration is affecting evaluation.
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46: Reflections on Foundations of Evaluation
February 25th, 2025 | 50 mins 27 secs
evaluation, evaluator education, foundations of evaluation, teaching evaluation
I share my reflections on teaching Foundations of Evaluation after a major course revision, including how it's been going for the first four weeks.
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45: Sheila Robinson and Kim Leonard
May 28th, 2024 | 1 hr 2 mins
blogging, book, evaluation, publishing, survey
This episode featured Kim Leonard and Sheila Robinson discussing their careers in evaluation and survey design. They shared how they met on Twitter in 2012 and began collaborating, writing blog posts that eventually became their book "Designing Quality Survey Questions." Sheila and Kim discussed their process for writing the book, starting with blog content and building it out over several years into a full manuscript. They also covered common issues they see in surveys and tips for developing effective survey questions.
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44: Brittany Dernberger
April 23rd, 2024 | 50 mins 35 secs
evaluation
This month I chat with Brittany Dernberger about her evaluation background and practice.
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43: Allison Prieur
March 26th, 2024 | 50 mins 6 secs
evaluation
This month I talk with Allison Prieur about her experiences as a graduate student in evaluation and running a business.
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42: Making ECB sticky with Corey Newhouse and Jessica Manta Meyer
June 20th, 2023 | 1 hr 12 mins
capacity building, evaluation, evaluation capacity building, nonprofit evaluation
In this episode, I chat with Corey Newhouse and Jessica Manta Meyer, both from Public Profit, about how to make evaluation capacity building sticky for the organizations we work with.
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41: Theory-based approaches for navigating complexity with Michael Moses
May 23rd, 2023 | 55 mins 10 secs
complexity, evaluation, learning strategies, theory-based approaches
In this episode, I chat with Michael Moses about theory-based approaches for navigating complexity, adaptive management, participatory strategy, and actions to shift power.
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40: Community-based participatory research with Dr. Tatiana Bustos
February 7th, 2023 | 34 mins 45 secs
cbpr, community-based participatory research, evaluation
In this episode, I chat with Dr. Tatiana Elisa Bustos on community-based participatory research (CBPR). We talked about what it is, how it compares to research and other similar forms of inquiry, and how to get started doing CBPR.