This evaluation employed a Responsive Evaluation (Stake, 2004) approach in order to determine the programs outcomes, as well as the perceived values of the stakeholder (i.e. students, parents, and staff) most intimately involved with a school based mental health (SBMH) program. The results of the evaluation not only provided insights into the programs outcomes and value, but also helped to define the processes by which the program achieved these outcomes. Additionally, the evaluation allowed for the construction of a logic model that represented the stakeholder's perceptions of how the program operated to address the needs of stakeholders, and matched with a humanistic theory of the program. This evaluation approach differed from the more traditional experimental approaches used in science to service studies of SBMH research and evaluation. By using a case study method, stakeholders' views of the program became the foundation for determining the program's impact and value
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Sensitivity is required when interviewing family members of hospice patients who have died. MassHealth, the Massachusetts Medicaid program, commissioned the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass) to assess family satisfaction with its hospice benefit. The study effectively identified and recruited family members of hospice decedents. In order to respect their privacy and be sensitive to the emotional nature of the topic, phone interviews were used for data collection. Over a six-week period, UMass evaluators twice mailed recruitment materials and conducted individual interviews
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Participants will: 1) Learn about culturally responsive indigenous evaluation (CRIE) and the major theories, research, and policies informing it 2) Become aware of the multiple contexts of CRIE 3) Learn about CRIE skills and competencies 4) Discuss practical applications of CRIE using case study examples 5) Reflect about professional experiences with/similar to CRIE 6) Deliberate about the strengths, gaps, and capacities of CRIE 7) Communicate professional needs and resources sought for strengthening their CRIE practices 8) Obtain new reference materials and professional networks to support future CRIE efforts #AEA2014Conference #eval14 #RoundtablePresentationDocuments #NickyBowman #CaroleeDodgeFrancis #ResponsiveIndigenousEvaluationACulturalContextualFrameworktoUseinIndianCountry #2014Conference
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Increasingly so, the success of today's students entering higher education and workforce is largely dependent upon acquisition of 21st Century skills
Bird of a Feather Flock Together notes.doc
This session shows how workshops and interviews can be used alongside other techniques to develop a program theory that incorporates a range of value perspectives. It will discuss the circumstances under which particular types of workshops and interviews are most useful and will show how to apply them, using examples. Included are several workshop and interview approaches that can be used to develop an outcomes chain as a key component of a program’s theory of change
AEA 2011 final.pptx
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Is evaluation used in the public sector? Realization of vision-and-values-driven social innovation (Patton, 2010) typifies the ideal of the public sector - the democratic governments of today. Public sector work in the 21st Century means adaptation and innovation as the norm in providing services to the changing realities of our complex ecology. 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. We focus on the example of Ontario's education sector where Developmental Evaluation is positioned as an executive leadership responsibility focused on decision-oriented use (Patton 2012) fundamental to professional capacity building. Leaders' valuing of evaluation and modelling evaluative thinking is essential to building the sector's capacity in using evidence to inform decisions and implementation for student achievement and engagement
AEA 2013 Oct 18 Panel Session 442 The role of evaluators in infusing evaluative thinking .pdf
This report provides a detailed description of an evaluation, written by Judy Oakden, as part of the first BetterEvaluation writeshop process, led by Irene Guijt
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