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DoView – outcomes visualization software released
We’ve just released our outcomes visualization software – DoView. We’ve been working on this for two years out of frustration at the difficulty of finding software which is just right for building...
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Can outcomes, monitoring and evaluation planning be standardized?
I was involved in an interesting discussion recently with a group of evalutors about whether outcomes, monitoring and evaluation planning can be standardized. In my experience, much evaluation planning...
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Potential challenges to Systematic Outcomes Analysis
Systematic Outcomes Analysis claims to provide a standardized approach to outcomes, monitoring and evaluation planning [see my previous post Can outcomes, monitoring and evaluation planning be...
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New Systematic Outcomes Analysis case study – evaluating an academic research...
I’ve recently put up the link to another case study on the Systematic Outcomes Analysis site. This is a report detailing an evaluation and monitoring plan for the Performance Based Research Fund...
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Castles of sand – cost benefit modeling
A while ago I came across a report of a cost-benefit analysis on climate change in which the author of the analysis admitted that his model may come in for some heavy criticism because it didn’t...
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Avoiding the question: Defining quality assurance versus program evaluation
Sometimes it’s more useful to avoid initially answering a question that’s posed in a particular way because there’s a better way of addressing the concern that lies behind the question. Such is the...
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A Systematic Outcomes Analysis framework for psychotherapy evaluation
In my last blog posting (which you should read before this one) I talked about using Systematic Outcomes Analysis to define the basic tasks one needs to do in quality assurance, monitoring and...
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Standardized visual evaluation plans – quick and effective
I’ve not had much time to blog recently due to building a number of large outcomes models for public sector organizations; having input into the further development of DoView; and presenting at...
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Distinguishing Evaluation from Monitoring (and other processes such as...
I have blogged before about what I see as the wrong way to approach the problem of differentiating evaluation from related activities (e.g. monitoring, performance management, assessment). Last time it...
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Putting the Planning back into M&E – PME or PM&E what’s the acronym going to be?
In a posting on Linkedin, Leslie Ayre-Jaschke talked about the growth of PME – or maybe it will end up being called PM&E, or something else. Regardless of the acronym, it’s the movement to put...
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