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Using On-line Diaries as an Evaluative Tool to Improve Program Development and Implementation
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| Nicole Gerardi,
University of California, Los Angeles,
gerardi_nicole@yahoo.com
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Conducting an evaluation of a program in its early implementation stage can be difficult when there are many aspects to the program and multiple stakeholders. Before focusing on measuring program impact it is often useful to focus on understanding program components and interactions. Using a multiple site, holistic juvenile rehabilitation program from the Los Angeles area as a case study, this paper explores how on-line diaries can be used as a tool for formative evaluation of project implementation and process. Both the benefits and challenges of using on-line diaries with a newly established collaborative program will be addressed. The paper concludes with a discussion of various ways to analyze on-line diaries as well as the various uses of the diary findings.
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Photolanguage Use With Novice Teachers Participating in a School University Partnership to Provide Optimal Resources for Teachers (SUPPORT) Network
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| Ann Bessell,
University of Miami,
agbessell@miami.edu
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| Adriana Medina,
University of Miami,
amedina@miami.edu
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| Paola Pilonieta,
University of Miami,
absolut_paola@yahoo.com
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| Valentina Kloosterman,
University of Miami,
vkloosterman@yahoo.com
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This session focuses on an evaluation of the SUPPORT Network for novice teachers; an induction program, mentoring and ongoing support, for university teacher education graduates. As part of the mixed method evaluation, we included a randomized trial of 48 participants who were assigned to either a traditional focus group or one that used a process called Photolanguage. Photolanguage is an innovative process that utilizes black and white photographs to stimulate individual's imagination, memory, and emotions. It also provides an opportunity to articulate thoughts by speaking through photographs using rich descriptions and imagery. In our study, both groups responded to the same probes and all responses were audio-taped, transcribed, and thematically coded. Photolanguage group participants' responses contained nearly four times more words per response than those in the traditional focus group. In addition, their expansive descriptions, use of adjectives, and adverbs led to unanticipated themes that did not emerge in the traditional focus group.
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Fitting PhotoVoice Into an Evaluator's Repertoire of Qualitative Tools: Possibilities and Caveats
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| Amy La Goy,
Evaluation and Research Consulting,
amylagoy@earthlink.net
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| Edward Mamary,
San Jose State University,
mama100w@yahoo.com
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Championed as a means of illuminating the concerns and perceptions of marginalized groups and of bringing these to policy makers' consciousness, PhotoVoice has gained a following among evaluators and researchers of community-based health and education programs. PhotoVoice fits easily – philosophically and methodologically—into action research, and empowerment and participatory evaluation approaches. However, it is not yet clear whether or how PhotoVoice can be used as a qualitative method in the repertoire of evaluators using other approaches. In this paper, using data from a project that used both PhotoVoice processes and intensive interviews to learn about community members' perceptions of health outreach strategies, the authors will explore the relationship between PhotoVoice images, the discussions they inspired, and data gathered through interviews. They will then explain if, how, and with which caveats PhotoVoice can be adapted for use as qualitative tool in program evaluation
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