I’m pleased to publish this guest post by my evaluator colleagues in the Idaho State Legislature’s Office of Performance Evaluations. Working in a governmental context gives them a unique perspective on education evaluation, as their work encompasses numerous fields and they experience evaluation in many different contexts. I’ve also long been a fan of their evaluation reports which exemplify a modern approach to reporting and dissemination: the report formats are visually appealing, and therefore easy to navigate, read, and comprehend, and they use well-designed visualizations to communicate key data points. Continue reading