Kim here, writing again with my survey design bestie Sheila B Robinson and today we want to talk about respect. Respect gets little respect in most survey design textbooks, but we talk about it in over a dozen places in Designing Quality Survey Questions. People are surveyed all the time these days. Survey fatigue is…
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. – Thomas Berger Hey readers, Kim here, writing once again with the marvelous Sheila Robinson, of the Evaluspheric Perceptions blog. It’s survey design season, so get ready to flex those question design muscles! Well, to be truthful, it’s always survey design season…
I have been downright overwhelmed by the amount of GREAT evaluation related posts and resources showing up on the web lately. So much so in fact, that it seemed only appropriate to curate a few of my favorites to celebrate here. It’s not a top-anything list, or even a recap of 2013, but I hope…
I am pleased to share my reflections on a new-ish text by E. Jane Davidson, PhD, titled Actionable Evaluation Basics: Getting succinct answers to the most important questions.* I was excited to see that Dr. Davidson had turned her workshops into this mini e-book, downloaded the 2nd version (updated Sept 25, 2012) months ago, and…
Among other things this week, I’ve been ruminating on the call to action in this post by 3ie’s Executive Director, Howard White. The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation’s website says that it “3ie funds impact evaluations and systematic reviews that generate high quality evidence on what works in development and why. Evidence on development effectiveness…
I don’t have all of the answers, but I do have an opinion. My take? Most data is messy. Or contains at least some mess. What do I mean by this? Very little data collected in the ‘real world’ is perfect. Even in controlled experimental designs &*^% happens. And in quasi- or non-experimental designs a…