Evaluators include professional evaluators, program staff with evaluation duties, evaluation students, and members of the American Evaluation Association.
There’s a hopeful mantra going around in evaluation circles that “you get what you measure.” Personally, I don’t believe it; I’ve been trying to measure social justice for years, and I can’t say I’ve seen […]
Present attention of the adult literacy movement too often focuses on the number of adult illiterates, the number of programs, the number of people in those programs, and the number of volunteers. But numbers are […]
Philanthropy by definition is a noble endeavor. Yet people want to know, “what good does philanthropy do?” The answer is hard to get, partly because philanthropy doesn’t really want to know, and evaluation doesn’t really know how to serve up good answers. This article illuminates the dilemma. […]
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