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Beyond Blue is one of Australia’s most well-known, trusted, and visited mental health organisations. Every three years, Beyond Blue engages an external evaluation team to conduct an independent evaluation of the organisation. In 2021, ARTD was engaged to design and deliver the fifth independent evaluation of Beyond Blue. The evaluation covered Beyond Blue’s external facing… Read more
Imagine yourself as a fruit grower. It’s been a great season, and your trees are abundant with apples, peaches, and plums. One day you decide to pick some fruit to make homemade jam. With so many fruits to choose from, how do you decide which fruits to use? This question is essentially one about sampling…. Read more
Ralph Renger is a leader in the field of systems evaluation, and a household name for evaluators. He’s recently published System Evaluation Theory – A Blueprint for Practitioners Evaluating Complex Interventions (just in time for Christmas gifting to your best evaluator buddy). The book provides a simple three-step framework for applying systems evaluation theory in… Read more
I attended an excellent IPAA Queensland session in September on ‘Rethinking Crises and Achieving Resilience in a post-COVID world’ with a panel comprised of Alistair Dawson (Inspector-General of Emergency Management), Professor Cheryl Desha (Queensland Disaster Management Research Alliance, Griffith University), Collin Sivalingum (State Emergency Services Manager, Red Cross) and Dr Anne Tiernan (Constellation Impact Advisory,… Read more
Find out more about our staff, their roles, and what their day to day looks like! What was your path into evaluation and ARTD? I was introduced to the field of evaluation in the early 2000s while working as a researcher and lecturer in the criminal justice department at RMIT University. Through this role I… Read more
Autism Connect – National Autism Information Line AMAZE THE CHALLENGE Since 2008, Amaze has provided the Autism Advisor Service as a gateway into the Helping Children with Autism Package and an Information Support line to provide free, independent, evidence-based, accessible autism-specific information and support for autistic people, their families and carers. With the transition to… Read more
We talk a lot in our work about the power of evaluative thinking, and much of our work is about listening. But while we put the two together intuitively, we perhaps talk less about the power of ‘evaluative listening’ as a critical skill of an evaluator, and the value that skillset brings to the design… Read more
ARTD and Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation (KBHAC) have received the Australian Evaluation Society’s Awards for Excellence in Evaluation in the Enhancing the Social Good category for their work together on KBHAC’s Practice Framework. The Enhancing Social Good Award recognises exemplary evaluation work that has substantially enhanced the social good and is particularly focused on… Read more
Earlier this year Ken attended the Evaluation Learning Sprint webinar on Digital Evaluation with Dr Samantha Abbato, Director of Visual Insights People. It covered the benefits and challenges of using digital film and other moving elements for everything from data collection to reporting. It sounded so appealing that Kate recently attended the two-day ‘Making it… Read more
What does our work have to do with banana skins, coffee grounds and happy plants? For Earth Day 2021 (@EarthDay and #EarthDay2021 on Twitter) we we wanted to give you an update on a few office inhabitants you probably won’t meet if you come into our Sydney Office, but who are doing a lot of… Read more
How do educators know that their chosen teaching approach works? How do they choose one approach over another? How do they know what approach will be best to serve the needs of their students? The answer should be: evidence. A new national education evidence body called the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) will launch later… Read more
The recent article Partner Andrew Hawkins published with American evaluation theorist and evaluator Ralph Renger, states: “Many prominent evaluators recognize the importance of accounting for contextual factors beyond the logic model boundaries that affect program success… If an evaluator wants to understand a constellation of interconnecting factors influencing an outcome, then a systems approach…will likely… Read more