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Learning from Self-Evaluation – Learning Priorities 2019-23
In the process of reflecting on our learning priorities, we realised that our learning from self-evaluation is your learning about self-evaluation. Here’s what we found.
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Good news! Funders do read and use grantholder reports!
Good news – some funders are using grantholder learning and doing so well! This blog contains some tips from the Funder Evaluation and Learning group that might interest grantholders and inspire other funders.
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Learning from self-evaluation – ESS self-evaluation process
To ensure ESS keeps practising what we preach, we have been evaluating how we evaluate. Read about ESS’s self-evaluation process.
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Learning from self-evaluation – your learning
As part of our summer theme, learning from self-evaluation, we have been sharing what YOU can learn from evaluation throughout July. This blog is a round-up of our messages!
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Learning from self-evaluation – our learning
For our summer theme, we are sharing tips on how to learn from self-evaluation. To begin, we have been sharing what we learned from our own self-evaluation.
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Young people in charge of evaluation!?! How could that work?
Young people from the Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) were commissioned by Scottish Government to carry out an evaluation of Scottish Government funded mental health and wellbeing community support and services for 5–24-year-olds, their parents and carers.
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#EvaluationChallenges – Getting everyone on board
We have come to the end of the second month of sharing our #EvaluationChallenges theme. This time, we have been sharing the difficulties that organisations may face in getting everyone on board with evaluation.
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#EvaluationChallenges – Making evaluation work for us
This past month, we have been busy on our Twitter sharing common problems and quick solutions related to “making evaluation work for you”, as part of our latest theme, #EvaluationChallenges! In case you missed it, here’s a round-up of what we’ve shared so far.
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What is good enough evaluation?
ESS has been around since 2005 so you’d think by now we could judge the best evaluation in show. Sorry – we can’t! Because evaluation isn’t a competition. There isn’t
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A database with a heart: using IT for meaningful evaluation
It’s a universal truth: youthwork and evaluation databases go together like vegans and steak. No youth worker wants to fill in a database. No database captures the magic of youthwork.
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How NOT to get overwhelmed when exploring digital tools for evaluation
If you feel overwhelmed by all the digital evaluation tools out there, first of all, do not panic! You are probably already doing all the right things but just need to review the factors that influence how you choose your evaluation methods.
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Mirrors, signal, manoeuvre – ESS is 17!
ESS wants to use its 17th birthday as an opportunity to celebrate. Like all third sector organisations, our resilience has been tested over the last two years (and we don’t mean by lateral flow devices).
