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To all the evaluators I’ve known before

December 9, 2025

By: Rachel Scott

recently changed career paths from working as the Director of Magnet Programs for a small urban school district to being employed by the Center for Research Evaluation at the...

What's the point of a theory of change?

December 9, 2025

By: Sarah Mason

A few weeks ago, a client called me up and threw out the age old question: “What’s the point of a theory of change?”

“People keep telling me I need one” he said. “YOU keep...

So, you want to be an evaluator?

December 9, 2025

By: Monica Coleman

Greetings! My name is Monica Coleman, and I’m a graduate assistant at the Center for Research Evaluation (CERE) at the University of Mississippi (UM). As it is my first post on...

Logic Models vs Theories of Change

December 9, 2025

By: Shannon Sharp

Logic models and theories of change help programs organize and illustrate their activities and goals. Funders often require these illustrations to help them understand exactly...

Bilingual/Bicultural Education- Tips for Evaluation

December 9, 2025

By: Olivia Melvin

"Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more...

The lost art of bridge building?

December 9, 2025

By: Sarah Mason

French diplomat and political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote that citizens who engage in “overlapping civil society networks”— those who have networks with different...