This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Washington Evaluators (WE), a local affiliate of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). As the founding President of WE has noted, affiliates help to develop an evaluation community in a local area. WE has become an evaluation community of practice. WE membership draws from the large, ubiquitous presence of the U.S
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Presentation notes and handout for Roundtable 560: Evaluating the Development of Community in Communities of Practice, Friday 11/04/2011. There is growing interest in many sectors to use a community of practice approach for improving how work around a shared concern is done. Etienne Wenger, co-originator of the term, defines these communities as 'groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.'
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Session Description: In an environment of increasing social participation and transparency, communities of practice are one means to unite a variety of partners to address common issues, share resources, and learn new information. When asked to design an evaluation of this type of complex social initiative, evaluators increasingly turn to system level evaluation
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PowerPoint presentation given as part of session 811 at AEA 2011 in Anaheim. Session was titled: New Frontiers in International Development Evaluation: Key Challenges and Lessons Learned in Evaluating Online Communities of Practice. Presentation Abstract: The International Program of Development Evaluation (IPDET) is an international evaluation capacity building program, sponsored by the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank and Carleton University, which has been operating since 2001 and has had almost 3000 participants from 105 countries around the world. One of its key features is the IPDET listserv-an online community of practice of IPDET participants and instructors. In 2010, an impact evaluation of the program was conducted. Linda Morra Imas, Co-Founder and Co-Director of IPDET will present some of the issues and challenges in trying to evaluate the effects of a community of practice like IPDET's, how the evaluation addressed them, and specific findings on the effects of IPDET's community of practice
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Typically, "stories" that emerge from evaluation results follow instrumental logic that enhances the process of task-oriented work groups designed to produce deliverable outcomes. In contrast, communities of practice need stories that follow communicative logic that enhances valuing participation, sharing of knowledge and shared identity. This presentation demonstrates how evaluative stories based on instrumental logic can be counter-productive to the sustenance of a Community of Practice. It includes examples of communicating results differently using each kind of logic
AEA2014v2.pptx
Founded in 1984 with an initial membership of 12 evaluators, the Washington Evaluators (WE) has since grown to include a professional and student membership base of more than 200 in the nation's capitol. This presentation described WE's experience in developing and maintaining a community of evaluation practitioners that include a diverse mix of government, private, and self-employed evaluators as well as prominent evaluators in academia
WE Presentation 9-24-2016.pptx
During the previous 6 years, Communities In Schools (CIS), an education nonprofit with nearly 200 affiliates across the United States, created a Total Quality System (TQS) of standards to achieve uniform quality in business practice and program implementation across the CIS network. To ensure that all affiliates were adhering to these standards, the CIS national office began conducting accreditation reviews of affiliates. Researchers at the national office used qualitative analysis of interview data collected during reviews to discover network trends and evaluate the impact of TQS. In this poster, researchers will a) present an overview of findings from interview data; b) describe the challenging transition from accrediting affiliates to evaluating the broader impact of TQS; c) describe the steps taken to encourage use of the findings in a network of diverse talents and interests; and d) evaluate attempts to encourage use of the findings and propose suggestions for similar efforts
AEA Conference 2013 Poster.pdf
The slides describe an evaluation of the Schools of the Future Initiative (SOTF) funded by the Hawaii Community Foundation. The first part describes the conceptualization of the initiative and analyses in the first year of the SOTF initiative. The second part is about a component of the initiative, online communities of learners; and describes the analyses performed on the participation and purpose of participation
AEA presentation Nov 11.pptx
Presenters included Kristin Helz with American Red Cross, Mununuri Musori with International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and Isabella Jean with CDA
AtC AEA Presentation 13Nov2015.pdf
Given the increased attention to resilience-strengthening in international humanitarian and development work, there has been concurrent interest in its measurement and the overall accountability of “resilience strengthening” initiatives. The literature is reaching beyond the polemic of defining resilience to its measurement
AEA Resilience Session Denver AEA - 10-2014.pdf