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AEA eStudy Webinar: Using Theories and Frameworks of Evaluation Practice to Inform and Improve our Work

  • 17 May 2012
  • 2:00 PM
  • 18 May 2012
  • 3:30 PM
  • Online
eStudy 010: Using Theories and Frameworks of Evaluation Practice to Inform and Improve our Work - Christina Christie

Dates:
 Thursday and Friday May 17 & 18, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern Time. For one registration fee, participants may attend 1 or both sessions. 
Length: 3 total contact hours 
Description:  The majority of our evaluation theories are intended to offer principles, rationales, and organization for the procedural choices made by evaluators and to orient practitioners to the issues and problems with which they must deal (Chelimsky, 1998). These "theories" are qualitative models, points-of-view, and approaches to the process of evaluation. Discussions of evaluation theories often focus on a particular approach. In this eStudy webinar, however, participants will be offered an opportunity to examine a range of theories comparatively, while also examining the theories that fit best with each participant's current social, political, and methodological beliefs, values, and practice.

Through lecture and homework, the course will introduce you to different evaluation perspectives and how they can influence how we evaluate. We'll use the Evaluation Theory Tree categorization system to gain a fuller understanding of one's own framework preferences, then compare, contrast, and explore theories from different branches to identify their application at each step in designing and conducting an evaluation.

This eStudy will occur in two 90-minute sessions and will include preparation materials sent before, between, and after the sessions.

Day 1 - This session will discuss a system for categorizing and comparing evaluation frameworks and the key tenants of prevalent evaluation frameworks for practice included in the categorization schema.

Day 2 - This session will cover the ways in which evaluation frameworks can inform, guide, and be used in practice.

Presenter: Christina Christie has taught professional development workshops for many organizations, including the Claremont Graduate Professional Development Workshop Series, the AEA/CDC Summer Institute, the AEA annual conference, and the Canadian Evaluation Society (annual meeting workshops). She has published both peer-reviewed and invited papers on the topic of evaluation theory.
Register: https://www.eval.org/webinar_reg/Registrationtop.asp 
Last day to register is Thursday May 10  


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