This Ignite talk shares an example of the integration of program design and evaluation by a non-profit to reach an underserved population of fishing families in New England. The design of evaluation tools and integration of data into practice is also innovative and challenging, with implications...
biesecker AEA Ignite 2016 with narrative in notes.pptx
How "cultural responsiveness" is defined and addressed in an independent consulting practice has personal, professional, and business repercussions. This presentation touches on matters to address in evaluation design and program delivery intended to be culturally responsive. #designthinking ...
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Session 1414, Evaluation 2015: Design Thinking for Exemplary Evaluation: Three Examples of Design for Evaluation and Organizational Learning While the other presenters in the panel will describe the application of design thinking to program evaluation, this presentation will focus on a...
RTran_DT_SummaryAndSlides.pdf
Oct 17, 2014 (01:45 PM - 03:15 PM) Session Number: 234, Nonprofit and Foundations Track, Think Tank Rosanna Tran [California HealthCare Foundation] & Srik Gopal [FSG] Session Abstract: Evaluation and organizational learning efforts in nonprofit organizations and foundations are often...
Adams, C., Nash, J.B., & Rous, B. Using design thinking approaches to facilitate data collection and use among stakeholders. A design thinking approach is a way of generating ideas and finding solutions to complex problems which have a degree of uncertainty. A critical feature of design...
Using design thinking to facilitate data collection and use among stakeholders.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-...
Archibald & Buckley_AEA2013_ET.pdf
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...
AEA 2013 Oct 18 Panel Session 442 The role of evaluators in infusing evaluative thinking .pdf
"Not a Member of the Project Core Team? But We Need Your Evaluative Feedback!" This is a presentation (#602) at the AEA 2013 27th Annual Conference in Washington, DC. The presenters are sharing their experiences about how evaluative thinking became a way of life for the Greater Cincinnati STEM...
ICE_AEA2013_GCSC & Evaluative Thinking2.pdf
#2013Conference #designthinking #Non-ProfitsandFoundationsEvaluation #Ignite #organizational-learning
Eval13_Sess143_Ignite_Tran_Resources.pdf
In our experience, it is still common to see ‘evaluations’ whose conclusions are simply non-evaluative descriptions of changes resulting from an intervention. There’s nothing explicit about, for example, the quality of the service provided, the value of the outcomes, the relative importance of...
AEA Biting the evaluative bullet (Michael, Jane Syd) 2012 v3.pdf