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Evaluation Performance Support
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| Tom McKlin,
Georgia Tech,
tom.mcklin@gatech.edu
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| Shawn Edmondson,
Spectrum Education Group,
sedmondson@spectrumedu.com
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This paper presentation is relevant to the second portion of the conference theme, “Evaluation Practice,” by providing an avenue for every current evaluator to participate in a project to improve the practice of all evaluators. This presentation will demonstrate some of the content available at EvaluationWiki, which may be used to support seasoned evaluators and to enable new evaluators to perform like those with years of experience. This paper also invites participants to contribute their expertise to this growing knowledge management system and describes the benefits of doing so beyond supporting new and seasoned evaluators. Like its parent, www.wikipedia.org, EvaluationWiki is intended to be influenced, updated, and corrected in real time by members of the evaluation community.
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Using DoView Visual Logic Models As a Front-End For Evidence-Based Practice Web Databases
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| Paul W Duignan,
Parker Duignan Consulting,
paul@parkerduignan.com
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Pursuing evidence-based practice is resulting in web-based evidence databases in many fields (e.g. Cochrane collaboration for health, Campbell collaboration for social programs, natural resource evidence databases, and international development databases). Concurrently, program logic models are becoming widely used as a way of visually describing programs. Visual logic models identify different parts of a program mechanism (program theory) for which a user may want evidence. Working with Australian evaluation consultants Clear Horizon and Land and Water Australia logic models drawn in DoView logic modeling software are being used as the visual front-end for an evidence-based practice web database - the Australian Government funded Natural Resource Management (NRM) Toolbar. The user views an HTML logic model on the web generated by DoView and drills down under hyperlinks to evidence summaries supporting key identified relationships within the model. This approach could be applied to any area of evaluation and evidence-based practice (http://www.clearhorizon.com.au/nrm).
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