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A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something—and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.
Berger, W. (2014). A more beautiful question: The power of inquiry to spark breakthrough ideas. New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Beautiful answers require beautiful (and better) questions.
That's how Cameron Norman kicks off his post on the intersection of design and beautiful quesitons.
In the UK CCTS Tracking and Evaluation core our stock and trade is the evaluation question, and we stand by the notion that a beautiful question will create an elegant answer to a complex issue.
Furthermore, our quest to build capacity within our CCTS to have our peer cores ask good qustions is a matter of devleoping good orgznaational ledership. Norman, in reflecting upon Warren Berger's book "A More Beautiful Quesiton", notes:
Berger finds that those best equipped to solve or at least address these big wicked questions in business, philanthropy and social innovation are those that ask ‘beautiful questions’ and do it often. Berger cites studies that have shown a clear relationship between success in leadership and a propensity to ask good questions. Asking good questions however takes time and the willingness to take time to question, think and question some more is another stand-out feature of these successful leaders.
What's the most beautiful question you could ask about your work?
Good storytelling is part of good evaluation!
While we like all the tips in this post from Advice to Writers, #4 is practically an evaluation report in a box: "Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___."
And #22 is a favorite: "What’s the essence of your story? Most economical telling of it? If you know that, you can build out from there."
Cameron Norman notes, in this thoughtful post examining the relationship between developmental evaluation and mindfulness:
Developmental evaluation is focused on real-time decision making for programs operating in complex, changing conditions, which can tax the attentional capacity of program staff and evaluators. Organizational mindfulness is a means of paying attention to what matters and building the capacity across the organization to better filter signals from noise.
Sheila B. Robinson believes there is something that
...every successful leader, coach, marketer, or teacher knows: You cannot understate the importance of asking the right questions.
It’s no different for evaluators.
Check out this eloquent post on the importance of evaluation questions in any evaluation.
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question – you have to want to know – in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.
Clayton Christensen
A link to over 100 tools and resources that measure various aspects of collaboration.
Clinical and Translational Scientist Career Success: Metrics for Evaluation
Clinical Translation Science 2012; Volume 5: 400–407
The authors discuss selected metrics and methods related to research career success in clinical translational research.
Tips to a better presentation—Dr. John Nash
This is the first in a series of posts from Cameron Norman on complexity in the context of developmental evaluation.
Middle Alternatives Revisited: How the neither/nor Response Acts as a Way of Saying ''I Don't Know''?
Sociological Methods & Research 2014 43: 15
This articles explores the validity of mid-point on a five point agreement scale
Choosing the Number of Categories in Agree–Disagree Scales
Sociological Methods & Research 2014, Vol 43(1) 73-97
This article shows that if researchers want to use AD scales, they should offer 5 answer categories rather than 7 or 11, because the latter yield data of lower quality.
Measuring Collaboration Among Grant Partners
In this article, the authors introduce the Levels of Collaboration Scale, and also show a way to map the results obtained from the scale.
http://onthepoint.smartsimple.biz/files/237865/f95430/Frey__2006_Measuring_Collaboration_Among_Grant_Partners.pdf
CTSA Evaluation Websites
Links to other CTSA Evaluation Groups
University of Iowa: http://www.icts.uiowa.edu/content/evaluation
Cornell: http://weill.cornell.edu/ctsc/about_us/tracking_and_evaluation.html
Boston University: http://ctsi.bu.edu/index.php/programs/program-tracking-and-evaluation/
Washington University: http://www.icts.wustl.edu/icts-researchers/about/icts-administration/tracking-and-evaluation
Georgetown-Howard Universities: http://www.georgetownhowardctsa.org/researchers/programs/tracking-and-evaluation/whats-it-all-about
Estimating Return on Investment on Translational Research: Methods and Protocols
Evaluations and the Health Professions
36(4) 478-491
The authors propose a model to calculate the return on Investment on clinical research units
In this post, Cameron Norman makes the case for why "exceptional developmental evaluations are by their definition examples of developmental design."
Six free web services that assist in the analysis and visualization of data.