Learning as Compost: Reorienting Evaluation in an Era of Authoritarian Drift
New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We synthesize insights from seven cases to interrogate a central assumption of the learning function of evaluation: Learning can be strengthened through better design, integration, or alignment with accountability systems. Taking the issue's conceptual framework seriously, the essay reflects what the cases reveal about the nature of learning ...
Tiffany L. S. Tovey, Jill Anne Chouinard
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How latent and prompting biases in AI-generated historical narratives influence opinions. [PDF]
PNAS NexusShu M, Karell D, Okura K, Davidson TR.
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From Insight to Theory: Advancing Sentiment Evaluation for Diaspora Development Projects
New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of “sentiment evaluation,” drawing on a mid‐term evaluation by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) of its program supporting Somali diaspora activism in Somaliland. Conducted in 2014, the evaluation revealed that “sentiment,” the emotional, identity‐based attachment linking diaspora actors to their homeland ...
Valeria Saggiomo +1 more
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New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article documents EvalParticipativa's 6‐year effort to democratize evaluation across Latin America through participatory approaches rooted in the region's traditions of Popular Education, Participatory Action Research, and Sistematización de Experiencias.
Pablo Rodríguez Bilella +1 more
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Editorial: Digital transformations and the changing nature of work. [PDF]
Front SociolCruz SA, Soeiro J.
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The Learning Function of Evaluation: A Conceptual Framing
New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, we set out a conceptual overview of what we call learning in the evaluation ecosystem to depict the interplay between external influences, organizational and community factors, and learning levers (e.g. capacity building, systems thinking).
Jill Anne Chouinard, J. Bradley Cousins
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Epidemiology and associated factors of childhood chalazion in China: a seven-year, hospital-based, multicenter, cross-sectional study. [PDF]
J Pediatr (Rio J)Liu C +5 more
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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor +3 more
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Exploring the stigma of mental illness in life worlds of different economic pressure: a maximal contrast analysis. [PDF]
Front Public HealthSpeerforck S +6 more
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Aftasten/Tantear: A sensorial, coalitional wayfinding among Muslim runners
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Muslim recreational runners in Muslim‐minority settings that take up running as their preferred form of leisure indicate that they feel they have to navigate a sense of exclusion when running outdoors. This article explores the process of exploration and sensing in public, represented by the Dutch verb aftasten, to investigate the way Muslim ...
Jasmijn Rana
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