The presenters are sharing their experiences about how evaluative thinking became a way of life for the Greater Cincinnati STEM Collaborative (GCSC)
ICE_AEA2013_GCSC & Evaluative Thinking2.pdf
But when you promote evaluative thinking, she sees her work and the world in a whole new light. This reworking of the common saying about fish and fishing is intended to suggest the transformative nature of evaluative thinking (ET), an essential element of evaluation capacity building that is too often absent
Buckley & Archibald_Teaching and Promoting ET_AEA 2012.pdf
In her 2007 presidential address to AEA, Hallie Preskill asked, "how do we build the capacity of individuals, teams, and organizations to think evaluatively and engage in evaluation practice?" Evaluative thinking (ET) is mentioned with increasing frequency in the evaluation literature--especially in the evaluation capacity building (ECB) literature--but often only fleetingly
Archibald & Buckley_AEA2013_ET.pdf
Internal evaluators in the public sector infusing evaluative thinking through connecting the dots through team relationships and using program theory as a tool for developmental evaluation to utilize evaluation
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Evaluation capacity building (ECB) focuses on facilitating the development of individual and organizational competencies and structuresโsuch as evaluation knowledge and an organizational culture of evaluationโthat promote sustained, high quality evaluation. Evaluative thinking is also mentioned in the ECB literature as an important attribute, yet such references are often fleeting. In this paper, we first present our rationale for highlighting evaluative thinking as an important component of ECB practice and as an object of inquiry within research on evaluation. Second, we draw on cognitive and education research to help develop and clarify the construct of โevaluative thinking.โ Finally, we explore some ways of operationalizing and measuring this construct, considering both qualitative and quantitative methods. Our exploratory work on measuring evaluative thinking is situated in a project designed to promote evaluative thinking and foster high quality internal evaluation among non-formal science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) educators
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Evaluators involved in public sector evaluations will share experiences and insights about how governments value, use, do and manage evaluation - including infusing evaluative thinking to facilitate evaluation use through evaluation capacity building of both individuals and the system by engaging stakeholders
AEA 2013 Oct 18 Panel Session 442 The role of evaluators in infusing evaluative thinking .pdf
Where do evaluation and evaluative thinking show up in an 'organizational learning culture'?
olcult.pdf
The strengths (and limitations) of both instruments to help an evaluator provide evaluative thinking to support innovation when there is no tried and tested solution for a problem
OM and OH for DE PRINT, AEA 18 Oct 2013, pptx.pdf
Implications of using vignettes to promote evaluative thinking in organizations and as a strategy to promote continuous quality improvement will be discussed
AEA17 - Wanzer & Berry (2017) Using vignettes to improve staff knowledge about program quality.pdf
This session will be of interest to anyone trying to build capacity in evaluative thinking and evaluative practices in organizations or across a sector
AEA EQA 13 Nov 09 final.pdf