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Guest blogger Patrick Germain shares how to manage your role as an evaluator in a way that avoids power struggles and helps evaluation to be valued.

Guest blogger Katie Aasland reveals her wishlist in an evaluation mentor including organization, structure and a sense of humor and more.

Guest blogger Elizabeth Silverstein poses the question of how can you help people overcome ‘evaluation apprehension’ or the fear of being evaluated.

It’s that time of year again. Stores are full of back-to-school clothes, backpacks, and school supplies and new evaluators and recent graduates are having back to school nostalgia. But at what point do you transform from a new evaluator to a season evaluator?

When I compared researchers and evaluators, Jen Hamilton commented that she’d like to get “correlation is not causation” tattooed across her forehead and guest blogger Chris Lysy drew the perfect cartoon to illustrate this.

After spending the past couple years as an internal evaluator, I decided to start addressing other internal evaluators’ questions, comments, and concerns. I’ll be sharing their questions on my blog, connecting them to other evaluators, and offering advice from my own experiences with internal evaluation. Guest blogger Johnathan O’Reilly asks the first question of how do other evaluators translate research to practice.