Cathexis would like to congratulate all of the award winners from this year’s CES Conference: Service to the CES – Emmanuelle Godbout-Gauthier Service to Evaluation in Canada – Keiko Kuji-Shikatani, Birgitta Larsson, Larry Bremner Fellows – Francois Dumaine, Gail Valance Barrington We’d also like to congratulate Team ReThink, who won this year’s Student Case Competition!… More
Rochelle’s CES Presentation: The ‘Burning Question’
Rochelle and Peter’s presentation about burning questions was a big hit at the CES conference in Calgary last week, where Rochelle presented to a standing-room-only crowd. A few people have asked for a copy of the presentation, so we have posted it here: The “Burning Question”: A Technique for Building Engagement and Buy-in for Developmental… More
2018 CES-CESEF Student Evaluation Case Competition
Cathexis is proud to once again sponsor the CES-CESEF Student Evaluation Case Competition, taking place at the 2018 CES Conference in Calgary on May 27. This year, three finalists were chosen from 22 university and college teams. The finalists are: Harmonious Solutions (University of Saskatchewan) ReThink (Universities of Victoria, Melbourne, British Columbia and Simon Fraser)… More
Countdown to CES conference in Calgary
Rochelle is excited to be presenting at the National Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) Conference in Calgary, AB (May 26-29, 2018)! This year’s theme is ‘Co-creation’. Rochelle will be providing a short presentation on ‘The “Burning Question”: A Technique for Building Engagement and Buy-in for Developmental Evaluation’. You can read more about this technique at Rochelle… More
Outcome mapping: An example of how to show your impact
Sometimes it is too early, or just not feasible, to show what your program’s long-term impact is. So what do you do? One option is to do some outcome mapping. This method draws on several sources to pull together a picture of long-term impact. Take the map below for Frontier College as an example. We… More
Grilled Cheese Day at Cathexis!
The team at Cathexis celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with a potluck grilled cheese lunch! There was a variety of cheeses to choose from (cheddar, brie, goat, and friulano), fresh sourdough bread, exciting toppings (pears, red pepper jelly, and spiced peaches), as well as green salad, potato salad, and tomato soup on the side. Sandwiches… More