Author Archives: Beth
Recap of the Canadian Evaluation Society’s 2017 national conference
The Canadian Evaluation Society’s national conference was held right here in Vancouver last month! I was one of the program co-chairs for the conference and I have to say that it was pretty awesome to see a year and a … Continue reading
On Flexibility in Evaluation Design
Been doing some reading as I work on developing an evaluation plan for a complex program that will be implemented at many sites. Here are some notes from a few papers that I’ve read – I think if anything links … Continue reading
Pragmatic Science
Another posting that was languishing in my drafts folder. Not sure why I didn’t published it when I wrote it, but here it is now! Berwick (2009) wrote an interesting commentary called “Broadening the view of evidence-based medicine” in which he … Continue reading
Process Use of Evaluation
Just noticed this in my drafts folder – some notes on process use evaluation from some of the papers I’d been reading on the topic. Figured I should actually publish it. Definition of process use: “the utility to stakeholders of being … Continue reading
Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) Conference Recap
In September, I had the fantastic opportunity to attend the Australasian Evaluation Society conference in Perth, Western Australia. As I did with the Canadian Evaluation Society conference, I’m going to summarize some of my insights, in addition to cataloguing all … Continue reading
Canadian Evaluation Society 2016 conference recap
I recently spent a week at the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES)’s 2016 national conference in St. John’s, NL. I’ve been to the CES national conference twice before – 2010 in Victoria, BC and 2014 in Ottawa, ON – as well as … Continue reading
One week until the 2016 Canadian Evaluation Society conference
One week from today, I’ll be on the opposite side of Canada, attending the Canadian Evaluation Society’s 2016 conference. I’m doing presenting in two sessions at the conference: one pre-conference workshop and one conference presentation. On June 5, my sister and … Continue reading
Reflections from the Canadian Evaluation Society 2014 Conference
I had the good fortune of being able to the attend the 35th annual conference of the Canadian Evaluation Society that was held at the Ottawa Convention Centre from June 16-18, 2014. I’d only been to one CES conference previously, … Continue reading
Intro to Philosophy – Week 7 – Time Travel
this module focused on the paradoxes of time travel and some ways to defend the logical possibility of backwards time travel (mostly from a David Lewis paper) time travel involves: external time = “time as it is registered by the world … Continue reading
Intro to Philosophy – Week 6 – Are Scientific Theories True?
this module was not what I expected – I was expecting to learn about the philosophy of science (e.g., positivism, post-positivism, etc.), but instead the whole module was about the debate between scientific realism vs. scientific anti-realism – a debate … Continue reading
