Presented by Nick Hart, Washington Evaluators President-elect and David Bernstein, Washington Evaluators President. 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...
WE Presentation 9-24-2016.pptx
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...
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Across the world, VOPEs are addressing their diverse evaluation practice through the development of evaluator competency frameworks. These competencies are being used for different purposes depending on their context from guidelines to inform professional development to a foundation for...
Session1414 Global Evolution of Evaluator Competencies.zip
Shifting an organizational culture so that nonprofit staff actually uses evaluation results can be extremely challenging. The Latin American Youth Center (LAYC), a multi-service nonprofit in Washington, D.C., is an example of a nonprofit that has been working to achieve this culture change. ...
This presentation for Eval 2013 examines the evolving role of an internal evaluator leading a collaborative effort that applied rapid tests of change to improve client outcomes in a public mental health setting. The Recovery Model represents a paradigm shift in community mental health that...
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Mike-Hendricks-Evaluator-Advocacy-AEA-2013.ppt
How to avoid "Nightmares on Eval Street" by getting your commissioning process right. What's wrong with the default approach to commissioning evaluation work - especially in complex/emergent settings - and some hot tips on how to revamp your commissioning so you get the right team. Hot...
2012 AEA Hot tips for commissioning and managing evaln in complex ecologies Davidson + White.pdf
In the real world logic of programs under evaluation is not always clear and consistent. According to my experience, three most common flaws in program logic are: (1) use of indicators instead of goals and objectives (the goals are “too SMART”), (2) lack of program/project goals, and (3) lack of...
Reconstruction of Program Logic Kuzmin for upload.pptx
Material distributed at Roundtable Presentation #743, Evaluation 2011, Anaheim, CA. The 2-page document explains why the presenter chose to examine this topic, contextual distinctions that may influence evaluation approaches, questions upon which to reflect, an abbreviated listing of the AEA...
Straddling Int&Ext Eval Role.pdf
The CES Professional Designation process is the first established program in the world by a professional association to credential evaluators, an important next step in evaluation's continuing development as a profession. Jean King, one of the authors of the Essential Competencies for Program...
King CES Response PPT, 10-11.pptx