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What do Evaluation Policies Change About Evaluator's Practices?
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| Claire Tourmen,
National Institution Higher Education Agronomique de Dijon,
claire.tourmen@educagri.fr
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Evaluation has different levels of institutionalization throughout the world and the public organizations. What influence does it have on evaluation practitioners’ day to day work? I will use the data gathered in my Ph. D., a thesis on evaluation practices undertaken in France. I will study the possible advantages but also perverse effects of a regular evaluation policy on evaluators’ practices. I will also study the opposite case, when people work with(in) in organizations doing evaluation if need be. Then I will discuss the success factors identified in this study and their links to evaluation policies.
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“You Want Me to do What?": The Process of Evaluator Role Renegotiation
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| Eric Barela,
Los Angeles Unified School District,
eric.barela@lausd.net
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| Samuel Gilstrap,
Los Angeles Unified School District,
samuel.gilstrap@lausd.net
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This paper will explore how evaluators adapt to redefining and renegotiating their roles within the changing demands of an organization. Evaluators define their roles by both their training, experience, and values and the organization context in which the evaluation occurs. When the context changes due to new organizational policies and the new demands that are created, evaluators must reconcile these new demands with their beliefs and must renegotiate this new context. A case example of evaluator role renegotiation is presented within the context of an urban school district whose evaluators are being asked to build the district’s capacity in ways that are not always aligned with evaluation practice. The intent of this paper is to highlight the supports and barriers in the renegotiation of evaluator role as a way of assisting other evaluators who may find themselves struggling to do so in a variety of contexts.
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