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"The Surprising Connection Between Happiness, Parenting, and Evaluation."
Spend less time on the why – focus on the what. Recently my wife suggested that when trying to help our children, rather than asking...
andrewjhawkins
Oct 25, 20244 min read
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How I ate an elephant - evaluating system change in bite size chunks
Systems change has been described as 'counter-structural' and 'counter-cultural' – to which it might be added that evaluation may be...
andrewjhawkins
Jun 14, 20247 min read
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Evaluation is to science as wisdom is to knowledge
This morning, I assisted my son with his homework, he had to find a synonym of ‘wisdom’ from a set of focus words. The answer in the book...
andrewjhawkins
Apr 12, 20247 min read
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The problem of evidence for evaluation in a post-truth world
We need better ways to have conversations with each other about action in the social world. Evaluation has the potential to bridge...
andrewjhawkins
Feb 2, 20245 min read
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A matter of life and death: evaluation as alpha discipline and the subordinate role of science
Science cannot solve ethical dilemmas. Science is wonderful. Science is useful for understanding the world. Actions that violate a...
andrewjhawkins
Dec 6, 20233 min read
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DISPUTATION ON THE USEFULNESS OF CONSIDERING EVALUATION AS SOCIAL SCIENCE
What is science? 1. The scientific method is a process of hypothesis generation and testing using systematic observation, experiment,...
andrewjhawkins
Sep 5, 20236 min read
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Propositional Evaluation and Julian King’s e-bike utopia
Demonstrating the value of Propositional Evaluation (PE) requires examples that show how fun, creative, and useful this approach can be...
andrewjhawkins
Mar 1, 202312 min read
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The urgent need for the discipline of evaluation to change paradigm from ‘theory’ to ‘reason’
Almost forty years ago Donald Campbell, the most prominent proponent of experimental design in evaluation (the Campbell Collaboration...
andrewjhawkins
Nov 11, 20228 min read
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The easiest way to ‘fix’ your program logic
Replace those arrows with plus signs. This simple fix can make a program logic more logical. Retain all those boxes – making sure that...
andrewjhawkins
Jun 11, 20227 min read
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