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    Professional Development Opportunity: An Executive Summary is Not Enough: Alternative Reporting for Evaluators

    The Canadian Evaluation Society-Nova Scotia Chapter invites you to attend a two part webinar series presented by Kylie Hutchinson: An Executive Summary is Not Enough: Alternative Reporting for Evaluators Description  Traditional evaluation reports often end up on the shelves of many decision-makers collecting dust.  Reporting is an important skill for evaluators who care about seeing their results and recommendations actually implemented.  In this webinar learn how to turn your findings into something more useful and meaningful that calls people to action. You Will Learn the role of reporting in good evaluation practice 3 principles for effectively communicating your evaluation results at least 3 alternatives to writing a final report. Kylie Hutchinson…

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    Letter to Premier McNeil

    With the change in government, the Chapter Board decided  to write to the new Premier.  We felt it was an opportunity to highlight the work the chapter does.  We also highlighted the NS Government Evaluator’s Network and encourage the Premier to incorporate evaluation as a line of evidence for public policy decisions.   The full letter can be found here.

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    CES President's Message

    Hello members.  It’s already the middle of January 2013.  I hope you all had a happy and healthy holiday season. The Chapter Executive met yesterday to plan out our Professional Development activities for the coming year.  Kathryn, our Program Chair presented a plan for professional development sessions for February through May.  Check out the Chapter Professional Development page for dates, topics and presenters. The Executive began talking about our Annual General Meeting coming up in May.  We are planning a full day event with workshops and presentations in the morning and afternoon.  To get us started,  Larry Bremner, President of  CES, has confirmed he can attend and is willing to…

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    President's Update to Membership

    Your executive has been busy over the last couple of months getting the website up and providing a couple of professional development events.   In November, we hosted the “Introduction to Program Evaluation” workshop with 14 people registering.  Feedback has been positive regarding this workshop.  In December, we partnered with Dr. Kaireen Chaytor for “The Great Debates in Program Evaluation” at the Faculty of Management, the Master in Information Management Program at Dalhousie University.  This was a free event for chapter members and number of members attended.  It was a resounding success and the student papers presented where interesting, well thought out and covered a range of evaluation issues / topics.…