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Reflections, opinions, explainers, related to evaluation.
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Submissions to the HEEL: how to be brave and balanced [Crosspost > TASO]
Last week, I wrote a guest article for The Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO) about their upcoming Higher Education Evaluation Library (HEEL).
They spent two years finding out something ‘didn't work’. That’s great news.
A two-year study. Three universities. Randomised controlled trials. And the result?
The intervention didn't work. But that isn’t the end of the story.
Creating a Theory of Change is like writing a pop banger [Crosspost > TASO]
Last month I wrote a guest article for TASO about how to write a Theory of Change using their Mapping Outcome and Activities Tools (MOATs).
In it, I described how writing a Theory of Change in some ways is like writing a pop song.
For me, evaluation is part art, part science.