Tag: bias
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Why Your Evaluation System Has Bias and Why That is Wrong….
When I was doing graduate school back in the dark ages, I remember taking a class called the “History of Methods” and it was an eye opening experience for me. For the first time I got to see how inherently biased traditional research methods could be. Fast forward to today, where we are so much…
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The Operational Evaluation: Expanding Our Definitions of Non-Profit Project Evaluations
Non-Profit project evaluations always seemed to me to be a little like a science fair project. You identify your theory of change or hypothesis, and some variables that you are hoping to impact. You reference some past research. You then identify some biases, discuss your methodology, collect your data, write a report and draw some…