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Priya Small

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How to Get out of the Evaluation Report Writing Slump

How to Escape the Evaluation Report Writing Slump We have all fallen into a writing…

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Five Tips on Making Your Evaluation More Systematic

Evaluation experts often define evaluation as a systematic endeavor. Recently I have been considering what…

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Tips on Planning for Focus Groups

A focus group is a moderated group discussion that focuses on particular topics of interest.…

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To Evaluate, let’s Facilitate: Building a stronger evaluation life-cycle, by boosting facilitation skills.

I remember, as a child, dutifully memorizing the life-cycles of frogs and butterflies. Now as…

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Tips on Building Relationships with Evaluation Stakeholders, Part 2

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can…

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Building Strong Evaluation Stakeholder Relationships

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can…

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How to Set Meaningful Professional Development Goals in Evaluation: Part 2.

A warm thanks to all who’ve reached out since the start of this blog. I…

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How to Set Meaningful Professional Development Goals in Evaluation: Part 1.

I’m back after a hectic work period (my apologies for the sparse posts!) I return…

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How to Simplify Survey Design

Keeping It Simple Many of us have probably have had a past English teacher or…

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How to Evaluate on a Budget: DIY or Outsource?

This question has nagged me for a while. It emerged to the forefront as I…

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Tips on How to Conduct Interviews for Program Evaluation (Part 2)

Tip #3: Use trained interviewers who are able to build rapport Effective interviewing is both…

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Tips on How to Conduct Interviews for Program Evaluation

Interviews are a way to collect useful data for program evaluation. They provide qualitative data,…

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Guide to Navigating Evaluation Maze: CDC Framework – Part 2

This is part 2 of a previous post on the Centers for Disease Control and…

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Understanding the CDC’s Evaluation Framework: The Maze

This week-end I found myself navigating the underground tunnel system of a local university on…

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Which Is More Important—the Means or the Ends? Process, Impact and Outcome Evaluations

One of my childhood memories is of my fifth-grade English teacher posing this question to…

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Four Differences between Research and Program Evaluation

Program evaluations are “individual systematic studies conducted periodically or on an ad hoc basis to…

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