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Source: New Directions for Evaluation - May 25, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
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Source: New Directions for Evaluation - May 25, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: John M. LaVelle,
Leah C. Neubauer,
Ayesha S. Boyce,
Thomas Archibald Tags: EDITORIAL Source Type: research
The evaluator and evaluation: Critical considerations for the future of education and training
AbstractIn this chapter, we reflect on the aims and gaps of this volume and the positionality of the co-editors and contributors. We invite readers to consider how education and training for evaluators are or should be conceptualized and actualized, and detail future areas for consideration and attention. (Source: New Directions for Evaluation)
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - May 25, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Leah C. Neubauer,
John M. LaVelle,
Ayesha S. Boyce,
Thomas Archibald Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Preparing the 21st century evaluator for language equity: Towards a language equity centered evaluation practice
AbstractClear and effective communication is a critical component of any evaluation design. An aspect of communication that is often overlooked is understanding a community's preferred language(s). This is a result of a power-based system that operates under a dominant language and cultural structure. When language preferences are not appropriately addressed in evaluation design and implementation, the effect is the intentional or unintentional exclusion of groups of people affected by the very programs whose impact we seek to understand. This requires deeper engagement and continual commitment from evaluation teams to ful...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - May 25, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Grisel Marie Robles ‐Schrader,
Diana Lemos Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The youth transformative participatory evaluator education and training approach: The EvalYouth experience
AbstractIn the face of unprecedented and ever-changing challenges at the local, national, and global levels, evaluation must change too. Our old ways no longer serve us or the field's social, economic, political, and humanitarian betterment aims. Taking these aims seriously means much must change, including how we educate and train. In this article, we lay out a vision for what must happen within evaluator education and training and examples of how a transformative frame can be successfully integrated. With the great challenges our countries and societies face, we revisit three fundamental questions: what do evaluator educ...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - May 25, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Khalil Bitar,
Fazeela Hoosen,
Bianca Montrosse ‐Moorhead,
Qudratullah Jahid Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Teaching specification of evaluative criteria: A guide for evaluation education
AbstractEvaluative criteria describe the attributes that define a high-quality intervention and represent values about which intervention characteristics or results are desirable. There are many types of criteria, including those focused on intervention outcomes or impact, design and implementation, and relevance. Criteria may remain implicit and assumed in evaluation practice, yet they nonetheless direct evaluative inquiry and provide the value basis for evaluative conclusions. It is therefore important for novice evaluators to understand why criteria matter and how to thoughtfully consider which and whose criteria to use...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - May 25, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Rebecca M. Teasdale,
Robyn Thomas Pitts,
Emily F. Gates,
Clara Shim Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
¡Milwaukee Evaluation! Inc.: Design principles for recentering social justice in evaluation training and disrupting whiteness and neoliberalism
AbstractAcross the nation, the American Evaluation Association (AEA) recognizes over thirty volunteer-led organizations called local affiliates. These affiliates provide professional development, networking, and field building opportunities that influence the local evaluation marketplace and ecosystem in ways that have not been systematically studied or understood within the larger discourse of continuing education for evaluators. In this chapter, we present a single case study on the long-term efforts of ¡Milwaukee Evaluation! Inc., the AEA Local Affiliate in Wisconsin, to recenter social justice in evaluator training an...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - May 25, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Nicole Robinson,
Emily Connors,
T. J. Cobb Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
A values ‐engaged, educative training model for novice evaluators
AbstractThe next generation of evaluators must be trained and mentored in high-quality technical, strengths-based, interpersonal, contextual, social justice-oriented, and values-engaged evaluation. In this chapter, we present a non-course-based, real-world-focused, adaptable training model for anyone working with novice evaluators. In creating this model, we have drawn from our multiple identities —educator, faculty, graduate student, first-generation, woman, Black, Latina, white, United States Citizen, immigrant, wife, mother, advocate, and change agent—and from our experiences, previous research on evaluation, cultur...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - May 25, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Aileen M. Reid,
Ayesha S. Boyce,
Joy Alcantara Chuquiruna,
Omodolapo Somo ‐Aina,
Caraline Malloy,
Sara Stephenson Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Setting the stage for critically defined and responsive evaluator education and training
AbstractThis chapter describes the importance of evaluator education and some of the different ways in which evaluators can learn about the field.It discusses a historic perspective on evaluator education alongside its recent developments, and describes areas where further discussion is needed, including critical adult education, universal design for learning, and explicitly linking evaluator education with contemporary and anticipated future needs. It concludes by asking “what should evaluator education look like in the future?” (Source: New Directions for Evaluation)
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - May 25, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: John M. LaVelle,
Leah C. Neubauer,
Ayesha S. Boyce,
Thomas Archibald Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Explicitly integrating interpersonal skills in the evaluation curriculum
AbstractInterpersonal skills are an essential element of evaluators ’ work, particularly when evaluators aim to affect the understanding and use of evaluation to make changes in the programs and policies we are evaluating. In this chapter, we provide a brief background on interpersonal skills in the evaluation literature, situating these competencies as essential in making evaluators facilitators of change, and highlight evaluation education's lack of explicit training in interpersonal skills. We then share our experiences with a standalone course for evaluators on interpersonal skill development. We conclude with insigh...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - May 25, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Tiffany L. S. Tovey,
Libby Smith,
Dana Jayne Linnell,
Deven Wisner,
Cade Coles Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
What we can learn from the international program for development evaluation training (IPDET)
AbstractThe International Program for Development Evaluation Training, IPDET, ran in its first chapter from 2001 –2016 in Ottawa, Canada. In 2018, it began its second chapter in Bern, Switzerland and continues today – an almost unheard-of longevity for a summer short-term training program. Over its first 16 years, IPDET trained more than 4000 persons in evaluation from more than 80 countries. During the ti me we report on in this chapter, IPDET consisted of a mix and match basic 2-week core program in development evaluation and two subsequent weeks of 2- and 3-day workshops for more in-depth specialized evaluation trai...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - May 25, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Linda Morra Imas,
Ray C. Rist Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Meeting the challenges of educating internal evaluators
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic and its related health, social, economic and geopolitical shocks have greatly increased the demand for internal evaluation as a way of helping organizations, especially those in the public sector, adapt to ongoing challenges and new realities. To help meet the demand, this chapter discusses the recent trend to educate managers, front-line supervisors and other organization professionals to be nonspecialist internal evaluators —individuals who are not evaluation specialists. Three experienced internal evaluators and educators share real-world examples of their successful strategies for educat...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - May 25, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Chi Yan Lam,
Keiko Kuji ‐Shikatani,
Arnold Love Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Moving beyond methods training: Key directions for decolonizing evaluation education in the global south
AbstractWhile effective in imparting skills and competencies required for donor-centric evaluations, the present system of evaluation education in the Global South adds little to the development of Indigenous evaluation theory and practice. As education is the primary tool for building evaluators ’ capacity to construct knowledge situated in local epistemologies and culture, deconstructing the colonial character of education is the first step toward the decolonization of evaluation practice. The chapter first discusses the importance of disrupting the colonial episteme as a core feature of the decolonization process. Nex...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - May 25, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Satlaj Dighe Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Kinship pathways: Nurturing and sustaining resilient, responsible, and respected indigenous evaluators
AbstractIn this chapter, we reflect upon the historical context and intersection of kinship and its relationality to Indigenous evaluators and their path to the evaluation profession. Indigenous evaluators with Indigenous lens perspectives are crucial to the field of evaluation. Our ability to ensure the success of current and future Indigenous evaluators requires that we reflect and examine both evaluation and Indigenous experience through an Indigenous lens. Our narrative concludes with suggestions that we move past the status quo of evaluation learning and teaching and embrace the concept of kinship as a component of ad...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - May 25, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Carolee Dodge Francis,
Nicole Bowman,
Sutton King Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Learning by linking the Canadian Evaluation Society's student case competition within a graduate evaluation course
AbstractThere are many ways to intertwine theoretical and applied learning to nurture the competencies required to conduct evaluation. Experiential learning opportunities remain a priority for many evaluation educators who are helping learners apply foundational skills and knowledge to practice. Evaluators develop their professional expertise in diverse venues, including through experience, through professional learning, or, as we highlight in this chapter, in graduate school. Incorporating experiential learning from a professional association into a formal graduate course requires a willingness to blend university course ...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - May 25, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Paisley Worthington,
Rebecca Stroud Stasel,
Katrina Carbone,
Jennifer Hughes,
Michelle Searle Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
