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Reflections, opinions, explainers, related to evaluation.
You don’t have to know anything about evaluation to understand the content.
Have a cuppa, read an article, let me know what you think.
Overcomplicating an Intervention
Often social issues are complicated. Fully addressing issues often means we want to address lots of things at the same time. But this leads to a problem. It ends up trying to do lots of things, but not well.
I saw an example of this, just this weekend.
We get ‘Sense of Belonging’ wrong
We’re obsessed with trying to get students to feel a sense of belonging at uni. It’s often something that we are trying to make happen, and we measure whether it has with a survey.
What if belonging isn’t an outcome at all? What if belonging is a ‘change mechanism’.