| In a 90 minute Roundtable session, the first
rotation uses the first 45 minutes and the second rotation uses the last 45 minutes.
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| Roundtable Rotation I:
Organizational Characteristics That Support Meaningful Monitoring and Evaluation Functions |
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Roundtable Presentation 418 to be held in the Quartz Room Section B on Thursday, Nov 6, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
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Sponsored by the Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Jason Ackerman,
Catholic Relief Services,
jasonackerman1@gmail.com
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| Stuart Belle,
World Vision,
sbelle@worldvision.org
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| Carlisle Levine,
CARE,
clevine@care.org
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| Abstract:
NGO accountability and measures of effectiveness are frequent conference topics. Does your agency's monitoring & evaluation function enable or constrain solutions to these challenges? The answer depends on a number of agency characteristics, and the influence of the monitoring & evaluation function within it. Using a summary of their field experience and industry literature, roundtable presenters will describe organizational characteristics with a tendency to either enable or constrain an agency's ability to create solutions.
The life-cycle of an agency is often decades long. Observing the impact of organizational characteristics can be an equally long-term task. However, the intense operating tempo of an international emergency has a specific duration and the response activities reflect a microcosm of an agency's culture, organization, etc. Presenters will focus on the success of monitoring and evaluation functions within international emergency response settings, and will also offer a comparison to their success within international development settings.
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| Roundtable Rotation II:
Collaboration as a Means to Building Capacity: Evaluating the Impact of Collaboration on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Programs in the National Girls Collaborative Project |
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Roundtable Presentation 418 to be held in the Quartz Room Section B on Thursday, Nov 6, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
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Sponsored by the Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Karen Peterson,
Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology,
kpeterson@psctlt.org
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| Carrie Liston,
Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology,
cliston@psctlt.org
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| Abstract:
Evaluators from the National Girls Collaborative Project, which aims to increase the levels of collaboration between individuals and groups that work to support girls’ interest and achievement in STEM, will present data on these efforts, including levels of collaboration of participating programs and other types of organizations, incentives an opportunities to collaborate in-person and online, and challenges to collaboration. Data sources include a survey sent to almost 600 programs on collaboration experiences, feedback from in-person and online events encouraging collaboration, and case-studies of collaborative projects. We will look at a “collaboration rubric”, adapted from the work of Hogue (1993), Borden and Perkins (1988, 1999) and Frey, Lohmeier, Lee, Tollefson & Johanning (2004), developed to capture increasing levels of collaboration between different groups. Challenges of measuring collaboration will be discussed, including forming a standard definition, identifying indicators, creating data collection tools, and determining a standard of success.
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