What Do These People Do?

[bibblebub]

For work purposes, I have come across this website http://europeanevaluation.org/about-ees/about-our-mandate during the past couple of weeks. Could someone tell me what these people actually do in the real world, apart from the nondescript action of evaluating things?

[Zacs-Master]

Isn't it obvious? They seek to advance evaluation knowledge and to encourage adoption of good practices by fostering evaluation excellence, independence and partnerships. I don't know how much clearer it could be.

[bibblebub]

that's so much clearer, apart from the bits that aren't

[Zacs-Master]

He he. It's clearest than my 'what on earth' post.

[Prudie]

You need to western blot the bits that aren't clear

[Zacs-Master]

LOL^^^

[bibblebub]

if i blot them does that provide a Rorschach test?

[Zacs-Master]

I always see a large bosomed Gypsy dancer in those.

[bibblebub]

hands off, she's mine

[Zacs-Master]

I saw her first ya big......leopardy thing

[Prudie]

clearly wishful thinking

[bibblebub]

well well well (that's wishing well thinking)

[Prudie]

Night night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9u69O3BUrY

[Zacs-Master]

Awesome song!

[bibblebub]

Free is the better one but here is the other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynIHsHYaig0

[scorpiojo]

What happened to TTD?

[bibblebub]

according to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_trent_darby#Fame_as_Terence_Trent_D.27Arby he disappeared up his own backside

[scorpiojo]

Lol

[Buenchico]

Harvard Professor Carol Weiss probably started it all off with her work 'Evaluation Research: Methods of Assessing Program Effectiveness', published in 1972.

Basically, she examined the methodologies used by researchers tasked with examining the effectiveness of particular strategies, irrespective of whether such strategies were applied to education (her specialist field) or to the wider world. That work, and her later volume 'Evaluation: Methods for Studying Programs and Policies' (1998), has spawned a science (or pseudo-science?) of studying the way that those charged with evaluating policies carry out their tasks. There are now societies all over the world dedicated to such research, including here in the UK:
http://www.evaluation.org.uk/about-us/about-ukes

If you really want to try to make some sense of it all, this might help:
http://www.hfrp.org/evaluation/the-evaluation-exchange/issue-archive/evaluation-methodology/evaluation-theory-or-what-are-evaluation-methods-for