Evaluation & Facilitation
I am republishing this 2019 post because of a recent, heated discussion on a popular evaluation list server. It is about the harmful impact of excessive evaluation questions on evaluation quality. Writing evaluation terms of reference (TOR) - th ...
This is a rerun of a blog post I wrote a year before I started running training workshops on online facilitation (with the PME Campus, for example). All of what I wrote then is still valid. Since I have promised I would move some posts from my old b ...
In 2012, I published a post with the title above on my former blog. And I still see major evaluations with budgets running into hundreds of thousands of euros that come with a four-week inception phase, or that are supposed to start basically the da ...
Back in 2013 my colleague Wolfgang Stuppert and I carried out a written survey that did not involve any writing! A useful instrument when you work with people with limited literacy. This is a 'reprint' of the post I wrote on my former blog (developb ...
Videoconferences can be too revealing. Not just for people who forget to switch off their camera/microphone during breaks, only to blow their nose trumpet-style or even poke it (believe it or not, I still witness such moments)! Interior decoration ...
The German evaluation society DeGEval has published a discussion paper (in German) that provides guidance for remote evaluation. It is based on experienced evaluators' lessons from more than a year of remote evaluation. The term "remote evaluati ...
Your interviewee speaks via a mobile phone and their signal is too bad for a proper, two-way (remote) interview. What can you do? Reschedule the conversation? Opt for an 'e-mail interview' instead? A new, hybrid method emerged in an interview I carr ...
The expectations evaluators are facing have changed. The resources we get for evaluation have, too – but they still fall short of what it takes to meet new expectations. This week Friday, Ines Freier, Berward Causemann, and I will discuss this d ...
A big hello, and a big thank you for dropping by, to all visitors to my new blog space! Some of you may have followed my developblog.org, which I started in 2008. That was around the time when I decided to go freelance and I felt I needed my own web ...