Learning as Compost: Reorienting Evaluation in an Era of Authoritarian Drift
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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Reply to Malka and Druckman: Durability tests already account for countermessaging, and additional countermessaging is unlikely. [PDF]
Hall MEK +4 more
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From Insight to Theory: Advancing Sentiment Evaluation for Diaspora Development Projects
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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Correction: Comparing the ability of the IAT and of the SC-IAT to account for behavioral outcomes: a re-analysis using linear mixed-effects models. [PDF]
Epifania OM, Anselmi P, Robusto E.
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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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Correction: Utilization of home-based care and its buffering effects between dementia caregiving intensity and caregiver burden in China. [PDF]
Zhou Y, Chan WC.
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The Learning Function of Evaluation: A Conceptual Framing
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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Editorial: (Mis)perceptions of inequality as a social issue. [PDF]
Kulic N, Mantovani D, Bellani D.
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Aftasten/Tantear: A sensorial, coalitional wayfinding among Muslim runners
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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