Madelyn Carstens

Evaluation Through Pictures Madelyn Carstens

The need for evaluation knowledge is widely acknowledged by many different organizations. To improve the quality and relevance of evaluations, it is important to increase the capacity of evaluation commissioners and managers and to share good practices and lessons learned.

But, Understanding evaluation is not easy.

Understanding this, the author of this book has a new way for people to know detailedly about evaluation. This is not an evaluation textbook. It is not going to teach you how to specify key evaluation questions. Or show you how to manage an evaluation. Or give you the definition for what is evaluation. By picking up this book you are not going to learn how to do a cost-benefit analysis. There is no well-researched discussion on culturally responsive evaluation. This book will not help you differentiate between measurement and evaluation. You will not learn how to choose between formative, summative, and developmental evaluation. It will not teach you how to visualize data or tell data stories. This book will not make your reports better.

This book is a cartoon. All about Evaluation are explained in a simple way that is understandable. It is the kind of book where you decide to buy two copies. One to read and the other so that you can tear out the pages and hang them on your cubicle wall. This is the book you buy to make your evaluation presentations more fun because, in addition to having all of these cartoons to read and show off, you also get digital versions you can download and share royalty-free. So no, this is not an evaluation textbook. But it is an evaluation book you should buy.