I’m pulling together a load of strands of work to produce learning material, workshop and a book about why evaluation fails and how we can do it differently.

Yes, a book – hence the post about avoiding writing the other day. I’m really enjoying the opportunity to spend time wading through words and pulling them apart and putting them back together. Here’s a brief example:

We currently see use of both quantitative and qualitative approaches to collect low level data for learning and development. These are the common happy sheets which populate our profession, ever evolving, yet always staying the same.
We rely on these to present people with a semantic differential scale, usually a numerical option between one and five,. Occasionally we’ll list words:
Awful – Poor – Average – Good – Excellent
Innovative design in this space has previously relied on scales of one to six (no middle marks), emojis (more fun), and other dalliances with ‘amusing’ presentation.

Proving Impact – Andrew Jacobs

Fun, amusing and really REALLY hard is the title of this post. It both describes the writing and editing process as well as the way we should approach evaluation and measurement.

Proving Impact will be out later this year. If you want to keep updated, sign up to our newsletter for details of when it’s published.