Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Quantifying qualitative outcomes from people’s own analysis. Insights for results-based management from the experience of a social movement in Bangladesh Dee Jupp Sohel Ibn Ali with contribution from Carlos Barahona 2010: Sida Studies in Evaluation. Download pdf
Preamble
Participation has been widely taken up as an essential element of development, but participation ...
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
David McDonald, Gabriele Bammer, Peter Deane, 2009 Download pdf
Ed: Although about "research integration" the book is also very relevant to the planning and evaluation of development projects
"Research on real-world problems—like restoration of wetlands, the needs of the elderly, effective disaster response and the future of the airline industry—requires ...
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
James Wainberg , Thomas Kida, James F. Smith
March 12, 2010 Download pdf copy
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Prior research in psychology and communications suggests that decision makers are biased by anecdotal data, even in the presence of more informative statistical data. A bias for anecdotal data can ...
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
This is a technical annex to http://mande.co.uk/special-issues/participatory-aggregation-of-qualitative-information-paqi/
Data processing steps
The network diagrams were produced using UCINET & NetDraw (a package). Very briefly, this involved producing the following files:
For relationships between sorted items:
Create a .txt file in a specific Dl file format, known as PARTITION, as shown in this ...
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Card sorting is a simple and useful means of eliciting and aggregating qualitative data, in a participatory manner. Card sorting is also known as pile sorting, in the field of Cognitive Anthropology. This post will try to accumulate a list of documents on this subject.
How to Sort, by Harloff and ...
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Date: October 19 - 24, 2009
Venue: Ottawa, Canada
Registration Deadline - October 1 Classes are filling up -- so call us to hold space for you
TEI and CES Collaborative Program
This October, 2009, the Canadian Evaluation Society, National Capital Chapter (CES-NCC) and The Evaluators' Institute (TEI) will continue their collaboration to bring ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
By Aldo Benini
"The purpose of this paper is to add simple productivity tools for text analysis, by publicizing existing ones and by adding one that I created. “Simple” is a relative term. As the diagram in the Summary ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Sabine Garbarino and Jeremy Holland, March 2009
Issues paper | Workshop report
There has been a renewed interest in impact evaluation and measuring results in recent years amongst development agencies and donors. This paper reviews the case for promoting and formalising qualitative and combined methods for impact evaluation and measuring results, as part ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Pim Kuipers, Sheila Wirz and Sally Hartley
Published: 6 March 2008
BMC International Health and Human Rights 2008, 8:3
Full text via this page > 1472-698X-8-3.pdf
Abstract
Background: This paper presents the methodology and findings from a proof-of-concept study
undertaken to explore the viability of conducting a systematic, largely qualitative synthesis of
evaluation reports emanating from ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Caveat: This post describe a proposal by Rick Davies that is still a work in progress, being tested to see how well it works and where it works. Your comments and suggestions are welcome. Please use the Comment box at the end of this posting.
A Social Framework…
is a format for ...
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