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CaDEA Workshop 1 Input. Welcome, introductions Overview / PLANS FOR SERIES Standards of Professional Practice Basic terms and concepts BREAK Conceptualizing the evaluation problem, stakeholder interests Working group discussions. Inquiry process: On what to focus for the workshop series?.
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CaDEA Workshop 1 Input • Welcome, introductions • Overview / PLANS FOR SERIES • Standards of Professional Practice • Basic terms and concepts • BREAK • Conceptualizing the evaluation problem, stakeholder interests • Working group discussions
Inquiry process: On what to focus for the workshop series? • Planning and framing the evaluation • Instrument development and validation • Data collection (design, sampling, ethics) • Data processing, analysis and interpretation • Reporting and follow up • SPECIAL TOPICS??
Standards of Practice • CES Guidelines for ethical conduct • AEA Guiding principles for evaluators • Joint Committee for Standards for Educational Evaluation program evaluation standards • Websites • CES www.evaluationcanada.ca • AEA www.eval.org • AES www.aes.asn.au
Program / intervention Formative evaluation Summative evaluation Evaluation criteria Evaluation standards Program logic model Evaluation issues, questions, objectives Evaluation framework Implementation eval. Process evaluation Impact evaluation Evaluation design Validity Reliability Non evaluator stakeholder Basic Terms and Concepts
Conceptualizing the Evaluation Problem • Program (Non-evaluator) Stakeholders • Individuals, groups or organizations with a stake in the program or its evaluation • Examples: funders/sponsors, managers, implementers, intended program beneficiaries, special interest groups • Program structural and context considerations • Age, program theory, program organization openness to change, consensus among stakeholders, micro politics
Conceptualizing the Evaluation Problem • Evaluator-Stakeholder relationships • External evaluation, internal evaluation and collaborative evaluation (Collab, Partic, Emp) • Relationships among non-evaluator stakeholders • Differential access to power, knowledge, expertise • Conflicting values perspectives • Resource considerations: fiscal resources, human resources, expertise (evaluation logic, program logic), time.
Types of Stakeholders • Policy makers/sponsors • Program developers • Program administrators/managers • Program implementers • Intended program beneficiaries • Special interest groups • Others WHO ARE THEY? WHAT ARE THEIR INTERSTS? WHOSE INTERESTS COUNT?