Evaluation journals play an important role in documenting, developing, and sharing theory and practice.
In this week's post, we've highlighted evaluation journals that would be useful to add to your regular reading, or to refer to for specific …

How do we ensure our evaluations are conducted ethically? Where do we go for advice and guidance, especially when we don't have a formal process for ethical review?
On an evaluation discussion list recently there was a question about ethical proces…

Many organisations are having to find ways of doing more for less – including doing evaluation with fewer resources. This can mean little money (or no money) to engage external expertise and a need to rely on resources internal to an organisation…

We’re delighted to be participating in this week’s conference – Impact, Innovation and Learning: Towards a Research and Practice Agenda for the Future – being held in conjunction with the launch of the Centre for Development Impact (CDI), a…

Many evaluations use a theory of change approach, which identifies how activities are understood to contribute to a series of outcomes and impacts. These can help guide data collection, analysis and reporting.
But what if the theory of change is has g…

The term "rubric" is often used in education to refer to a systematic way of setting out the expectations for students in terms of what would constitute poor, good and excellent performance.
In recent years rubrics have begun to be used …

There is increasing recognition that a theory of change can be useful when planning an evaluation. A theory of change is an explanation of how activities are understood to contribute to a series of outcomes and impacts. It might be called a program the…

[Blog post updated and extended 4 March 2013]
There is increasing discussion about the potential relevance of ideas and methods for addressing complexity in evaluation. But what does this mean?  And is it the same as addressing complication?
For e…