| Session Title: Evaluation: What Stakeholders Don't Know Can Hurt Evaluation |
| Demonstration Session 533 to be held in the Quartz Room Section A on Friday, Nov 7, 9:15 AM to 10:45 AM |
| Sponsored by the Collaborative, Participatory & Empowerment Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| L Shon Bunkley, Community Research Partners, sbunkley@communityresearchpartners.org |
| Gary Timko, Community Research Partners, gtimko@communityresearchpartners.org |
| Abstract: This 90-minute demonstration will provide attendees with practical guidelines for engaging a broad range of stakeholders in the evaluation process, from conceptualizing the evaluation plan to making use of evaluation findings. Session attendees will be given specific and tested examples of: - Gauging and broadening stakeholders' understanding of the purpose, value, and process of evaluation - Actively involving stakeholders in the identification of conclusions and recommendations - Increasing the readability of reports |